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,db88d0444fafe8eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter 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: Surprise in array concatenation References: <1125610942.747981.280770@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1125935610.797293.40550@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <6W0Te.5718$4P5.4916@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:02:53 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126022574 147.24.111.90 (Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:02:54 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:02:54 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4477 Date: 2005-09-06T09:02:53-07:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Heh? The lower (and upper!) bound of all array types in Pascal is > fixed. And it has to be fixed at a static value. Every array object of > a given type has the same fixed bounds. Poor word choice, I guess. I meant fixed by the language, as arrays in FORTRAN 66 have a lower bound fixed at 1, or arrays in C have a lower bound fixed at 0. > It's true that the lower bound doesn't have to be 1, or any other > particular value, but it has to be static, and it is fixed for that > array type. This is what I meant. Even in Ada, the lower bound of an array object is fixed at some value. But the lower bound is defined by the user, not by the language. -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com