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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:49:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lylfd7o8fz.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1cc09f04-98f2-4ef3-ac84-9a9ca5aa3fd5n@googlegroups.com

Stephen Davies <joviangm@gmail.com> writes:

> Not only is it ugly, but it's potentially dangerous if code uses the
> latter and works for ages until one day somebody passes a slice
> instead of a string starting at 1 (yes, compilers might generate
> warnings, but that doesn't negate the issue, imho).

I suppose you could use a precondition.

I had a similar problem with the Ada 2005 Math Extensions[1], where the Ada
code supports arbitrary ranges on the input & output matrices (well, I
did insist that the output ranges matches the inputs!) but the
underlying Fortran code assumes that ranges start at 1 .. hmm. I see
from a perfunctory search that F90 allows arbitrary ranges. Still,
LAPACK seems not to ...[2]

I see that current GNATs give a lot of warnings about use of an
anonymous access type allocator.

[1] http://gnat-math-extn.sourceforge.net/index.html/
[2] http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/d3/dfb/group__real_g_eeigen_ga6176eadcb5a027beb0b000fbf74f9e35.html#ga6176eadcb5a027beb0b000fbf74f9e35

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-05 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2021-01-05 12:24 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-01-05 12:49 ` Simon Wright [this message]
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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