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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc4137777a63bff X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Help needed for ada package Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:42:21 +0100 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <1122305318.728942.304120@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2OudnZo-iL1aN3jfRVn-iQ@comcast.com> <1122475184.849564.159870@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122547648.069514.63520@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122980923.842598.181310@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1123069124.562944.246730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1123090742.323338.311230@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1123134138 8550 62.49.19.209 (4 Aug 2005 05:42:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 05:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:usWY4P7Vydh5aw0P/0IC8i55SFM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3947 Date: 2005-08-04T06:42:21+01:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > Simon Wright wrote: >> You need to return the value of ID which means "not a valid >> ID". That >> might be ID'First or ID'Last (your value of 0 implies 'First). But I >> expect that your first Person would have an ID of 'First! Sounds like >> there's a deep problem in the spec there? > > IIRC, the spec states that anything may be returned if there's no > valid value. Oh yes, I was forgetting this is an exercise ..