From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Half Constrained Array Types and Slices
Date: 5 Mar 2006 20:16:53 -0600
Date: 2006-03-05T20:16:53-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mxp4w4A01wdO@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccek1ky3nj.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
In article <wccek1ky3nj.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
>> In article <qZuNf.2045$6I.1540@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:
>>
>> > In Ada we have constrained and unconstrained array types; I call this a "half
>> > constrained" array type so we have names for all of them. Since his language
>> > doesn't have box, I presume an unconstrained array type would be:
>> >
>> > type Unconstrained (Lo : Positive; Hi : Natural) is array (Lo .. Hi) of Component;
>>
>> That looks to me very much like Pascal.
>
> Really? I don't know any version of Pascal that allows anything like
> that.
VAX/DEC/HP Pascal uses something like that not in a type declaration
but in describing the type of a routine parameter.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 5:00 Half Constrained Array Types and Slices Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-02 8:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-02 15:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-03-02 19:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-02 20:06 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-02 20:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-02 21:01 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-02 20:40 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-02 14:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-03-02 20:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-02 20:48 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-06 2:16 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2006-03-06 18:50 ` Martin Krischik
2006-03-02 20:38 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-03 5:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-03 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-03 23:41 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-06 17:50 ` Jeff Carter
2006-03-06 18:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-07 19:02 ` Jeff Carter
2006-03-08 14:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-09 22:44 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-10 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-06 19:49 ` Stefan Lucks
2006-03-08 17:36 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2006-03-08 17:56 ` Jeff Carter
2006-03-09 22:36 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-10 4:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-10 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-10 17:33 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-10 21:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-03-10 17:38 ` Robert A Duff
2006-03-11 0:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-03-11 1:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-03-11 8:38 ` Niklas Holsti
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