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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Renaming vs assignment to constant Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:17:57 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <361fb7d4-d22e-4ac3-a307-48108c4f8eb0@googlegroups.com> <030e719b-05ec-43ef-9d01-d2c473350704@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 06:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2b3884a634d8f846e0712b4e3a92507a"; logging-data="21683"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/atcY6OHLD89BSox6s8h+e" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:tLY0GPvzoLiCKWF4YlGYFbCMUtM= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Original-Bytes: 2086 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:184123 Date: 2013-12-07T07:17:57+01:00 List-Id: Le 07/12/2013 02:04, Shark8 a écrit : >> What is the big difference between that and >> > ch : constant Character:= 'X'; -- Character X. >> > temp : constant String := Character'Image(ch); -- Its image: 'X'. >> > ch2 : constant Character := temp(2); -- The unquoted character. > Size of Ch: Assuming 8. > Size of temp: 24 + Bounds(assuming 64). > Size of Ch: Assuming 8. > > Total 104 bits. But you don't need temp: ch : constant Character:= 'X'; -- Character X. ch2 : constant String := Character'Image(ch)(2); -- 'X' unquoted -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr