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,bc4137777a63bff X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Help needed for ada package References: <1122305318.728942.304120@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2OudnZo-iL1aN3jfRVn-iQ@comcast.com> <1122475184.849564.159870@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122547648.069514.63520@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122980923.842598.181310@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1123069124.562944.246730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1123090742.323338.311230@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:59:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.114.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1123117162 4.240.114.81 (Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:59:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:59:22 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3946 Date: 2005-08-04T00:59:22+00:00 List-Id: Simon Wright wrote: > > You need to return the value of ID which means "not a valid ID". That > might be ID'First or ID'Last (your value of 0 implies 'First). But I > expect that your first Person would have an ID of 'First! Sounds like > there's a deep problem in the spec there? IIRC, the spec states that anything may be returned if there's no valid value. -- Jeff Carter "I was hobbling along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone! Not so much as a 'by your leave!' You're cured, mate. Bloody do-gooder!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 76