From: Stephen Davies <joviangm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 14:38:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8013a5f-083d-45a1-a82f-cd340ce3664en@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rt7v2c$6fi$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>
On Thursday, 7 January 2021 at 21:39:26 UTC, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Stephen Davies" <jovi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Reminder, my justification is not only for strings being indexed by
> > numeric literals, e.g.:
> > subtype Some_Range is Positive range 4..5;
> > ...
> > Some_String(Some_Range) -- fails if Some_String'First /= 1
> I don't follow this at all. You say your justification "is not only for
> strings" but only give a string example.
I said not "not only for strings being indexed by *numeric literals*"
then gave an example where the index was a subtype.
> And what you want is essentially the semantics of a vector container
For the foreseeable future, people are going to use arrays,
especially Strings. I want a small change that will make code
more readable and could prevent erroneous behaviour.
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2021-01-05 11:04 Lower bounds of Strings Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 11:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-05 12:32 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-05 13:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-05 14:31 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 17:24 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 18:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-05 21:02 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-07 10:38 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-07 21:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-07 22:38 ` Stephen Davies [this message]
2021-01-05 12:24 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-01-05 12:49 ` Simon Wright
2021-01-05 12:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-06 3:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-06 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-07 0:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-07 9:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-07 22:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-08 9:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-08 17:23 ` Shark8
2021-01-08 20:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-09 2:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-09 10:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-12 8:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-12 9:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-09 2:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-09 14:52 ` Why UTF-8 (was Re: Lower bounds of Strings) Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-09 18:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-12 7:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-11 21:35 ` Lower bounds of Strings Shark8
2021-01-12 8:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-12 20:51 ` Shark8
2021-01-12 22:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-13 12:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-13 13:27 ` AdaMagica
2021-01-13 13:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-13 14:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-14 11:38 ` AdaMagica
2021-01-14 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-14 13:31 ` AdaMagica
2021-01-14 14:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-14 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-14 15:28 ` Shark8
2021-01-14 15:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-19 21:02 ` G.B.
2021-01-19 22:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-20 20:10 ` G.B.
2021-01-20 20:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-15 10:24 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 11:41 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-01-15 17:35 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 19:36 ` Egil H H
2021-01-16 12:57 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-17 14:10 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-19 5:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-19 6:13 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-01-15 11:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-15 13:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-15 13:56 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 15:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-15 17:22 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 21:10 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-15 14:00 ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-16 9:30 ` G.B.
2021-01-16 13:13 ` Stephen Davies
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