From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Strings initialised by literals
Date: 23 Jul 2001 05:55:29 -0500
Date: 2001-07-23T05:55:29-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yfobu8AEGUqb@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B5B7E39.79B814F4@avercom.net
In article <3B5B7E39.79B814F4@avercom.net>, Tucker Taft <stt@avercom.net> writes:
>
>
> James Rogers wrote:
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>> This is guaranteed by the language.
>>
>> The string type is defined as :
>>
>> type string is array(Positive range <>) of character;
>
> Not all strings start at 1. However, when there is no "applicable index
> constraint" provide by context, then the low bound is the lower bound of
> the index subtype, which in this case is Positive (and Positive'First =
> 1).
> See RM95 4.3(26).
Actually 4.3.3(26), I presume (now that you have pointed it out).
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2001-07-21 18:58 Strings initialised by literals Matthew Woodcraft
2001-07-22 0:52 ` James Rogers
2001-07-23 1:30 ` Tucker Taft
2001-07-23 2:45 ` James Rogers
2001-07-23 10:55 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
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