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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3736685ef876ab2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!e1g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: braver Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OO Style with Ada Containers Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:08:00 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <1195082906.420079.195000@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1195084214.480299.13970@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <1195084752.840598.174460@v65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1195086265.070953.93180@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.154.66.97 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195999681 1120 127.0.0.1 (25 Nov 2007 14:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e1g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.154.66.97; posting-account=V2cESwoAAACnN32CFvmyu4DCs-heiisG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.24 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18609 Date: 2007-11-25T06:08:00-08:00 List-Id: On Nov 19, 5:24 am, Matthew Heaney wrote: > function Word (S : Scanner) return String is > L : constant Positive := S.Word_Last - S.Word_First + 1; > > begin > return Result : String (1 .. L) do > Result := S.Line (S.Word_First .. S.Word_Last); > Next (S.H.S.all); > end return; > end Word; I'm still pondering the workings of the Next (S.H.S.all) above. Why three (!) dots-dereferences? Cheers, Alexy