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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Slice and Unbounded String
Date: 1996/11/27
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Date: 1996-11-27T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <01bbdc70$2e557160$262a6282@cln49ae>,
Pascal Obry <pascal.obry@der.edfgdf.fr> wrote:
>S := Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Slice (U, 6, 8);
>
>Should S have a range 6 .. 8 or a range 1 .. 3.

See A.4.5(82), A.4.4(101), A.4.4(1) "whose low bound is 1", A.4.3(2),
and AI-128.  The correct result is 1..3.

(Life would be easier if type String behaved that way, so all Strings
were 1..something -- not so.)

- Bob