Re: Ada Recursion with strings

[Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com>]

On Sep 30, 6:24 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:

> Though you can refer to the function IP_String within itself as
> Ip_Packet.IP_String, it would be better to change the name of the parameter to
> something other than the name of the function, like Current_Result.

doh, I didn't even see that.  Changing the parameter name solved all
my problems.

> How many times does the magic number 2 ** 8 appear in this short example?

Thrice, I'm not sure I know what you're getting at.

> There are other errors in your code; you'll probably figure several of
> them out once you get your program to run, and you'll probably figure
> another out if you change 123456 in your test to 65536.

Thank you Adam for that little hint.  The 2**8n numbers now work as
expected.

One other thing.  The image attribute returns a string with a space in
front.  Is there any way to get rid of the space?