From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b5b3c67aa2a73fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Easy question about Character manipulation Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:07:32 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1170100860.762334.13830@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1d5n0ksoz75yy.3t2hhxjr35fq$.dlg@40tude.net> <1170106218.6329.63.camel@localhost> <1170121405.6329.89.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jRJzAeF/h0KPuQqOhoZR5wY7Lgnr6AZWTqeXIkaAaf1WIitHmy User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 Thread-Topic: Easy question about Character manipulation Thread-Index: AcdFlPfnNlsq0rGIEduzcQARJIjQTg== Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8801 Date: 2007-02-01T00:07:32+00:00 List-Id: On 31/1/07 23:46, in article ST9wh.248683$aJ.115281@attbi_s21, "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: > Well, there weren't really formal semantics in J&W. No indeed, I was referring to the BSI/ISO standard. The J&W language "definition" was a frightful mess that took us the best part of 2 years to sort out. > But what I was getting at was that Pascal didn't have > user-defined numeric types. Like C, you were stuck with > what the compiler gave you, which generally > corresponded to what the hardware provided. IIRC, for integers you were > only guaranteed Integer, though most implementations had additional > sizes. A subrange was still the same size as Integer, but had run-time > checks to enforce the smaller range, just like an Ada subtype. That's exactly right. -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk