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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5117b1b6391a0e06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer) References: <1087410710.477506@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:03:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.33.79 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1088039024 63.184.33.79 (Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:03:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:03:44 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1842 Date: 2004-06-24T01:03:44+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > And just plain wrong, IMHO. The decision to allow Ada 83 compilers to > emasculate this critically useful feature was one of the worst made. > (If that decision had not been made, we wouldn't really need > Ada.Strings.Unbounded, among other things.) The original ACVC tests > required this to work, and people put pressure on the AVO to get them > removed. It looks as if Randy is back from Europe (7 posts on this thread alone today). While I agree with the concept, responses to the OP must deal with the language as it is and be portable across compilers. -- Jeff Carter "You empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 04