Re: A question and a request

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

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From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: November 07, 2001 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: A question and a request


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> Use type not subtype if you do not want the above behavior. Read
> below (taken from:
> http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dale/ada/aln/4_basic_types.htmli )
> 
> Subtypes
> 
> We can restrict the range of values a variable can take by declaring a
> subtype with a restricted range of values (this corresponds to Pascal's
> user defined types). Any attempt to place an out-of-range value into a
> variable of a subtype results in an exception (program error). In this
> way program errors can be discovered. The syntax for a subtype
> declaration is
> 
The above paragraph is simply wrong.  The excetpion which will be
raised is not Program_Error, but Constraint_Error.

As a further note to Dale (the prsumed author of the linked website),
there are spelling errors in the commentary on those pages.

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