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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,685d80ec307a0c
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>
Subject: Re: use of attribute Pos
Date: 2000/10/12
Message-ID: <_coF5.20$bz5.35639@nnrp3.sbc.net>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 680697982
References: <39E4A08D.B454CB1C@laas.fr> <kJ2F5.19$_H3.22643@nnrp1.sbc.net>
 <39E583F7.A971C8DB@laas.fr> <5DiF5.1987$tN5.213230@nnrp2.sbc.net>
 <39E5DE79.F61616EC@laas.fr> <gNlF5.7$bz5.13225@nnrp3.sbc.net>
 <39E5EBED.170B7E46@averstar.com> <8s4v1s$1gj$1@news.huji.ac.il>
X-Priority: 3
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300
X-Complaints-To: abuseswbell.net
X-Trace: nnrp3.sbc.net 971378618 208.191.184.67 (Thu,
 12 Oct 2000 14:23:38 CDT)
Organization: SBC Internet Services
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:23:38 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 2000-10-12T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Too much info!  When somebody is new and confused we shouldn't drown
them in the details!  :-)


"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
news:8s4v1s$1gj$1@news.huji.ac.il...
>
> Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote in message
>  > Some attributes are type-related, and others are
> > subtype-specific.  'First and 'Last are subtype-specific,
> > whereas 'Pos, 'Image, (and all the attributes that are
> > functions) are type-related.
> >
>
> To make things even more intersting for first time users of the
language, an
> attribute can mean sometinhg different when applied to a TYPE and to
> VARIABLE.
> V'frist means something different than T'first (V=VAR, T=TYPE).
>
>
> --
> Ehud Lamm   mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
> http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <==  Me!
>
>
>
>
>
>