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basic ada question

[Randy]

Hi.  I have a few books and have just started to learn about Ada.
I see that some books use a line like:

Ada.float_Text_IO.Get ( Item => P);

I was wondering about the "Item=>."
This is not (not yet anyway) explained and I was wondering if someone 
could tell me more about why/how to use it?
It seems to be optional and not required.

Thanks

Re: basic ada question

[Adrian Knoth]

Randy <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> Ada.float_Text_IO.Get ( Item => P);
>
> I was wondering about the "Item=>."
> This is not (not yet anyway) explained and I was wondering if someone 
> could tell me more about why/how to use it?

It is a named parameter. You can use it to rearrange the order
of your parameters when calling a function/procedure.

Imagine something like this:

   procedure foo (param1: in t1; param2: in t2; param3: in t3)

So you can call foo with

   foo (a, b, c) where a has type t1, b has type t2 and c has type t3.

You might want to use a different order, so use named parameters:

   foo (param2 => b, param1 => a, param3 => c);

There is more to tell about named parameters, just go on reading
your book.

> It seems to be optional and not required.

You're not forced to use named parameters. It's just a feature
to ease your life ;)

> Thanks

BTW: your postings sucks pretty much: no valid From, non-unique
     message-ID (no fqdn). Perhaps you can correct this.

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[OT]

[Randy]

Adrian Knoth wrote:


> 
> BTW: your postings sucks pretty much: no valid From, non-unique
>      message-ID (no fqdn). Perhaps you can correct this.
> 

Could someone explain what he is talking about here?
I am afraid I don't know.

Re: [OT]

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <tbANe.159$Vg7.100@trnddc06>, Randy <abuse@127.0.0.1> writes:
> Adrian Knoth wrote:

>> BTW: your postings sucks pretty much: no valid From, non-unique
>>      message-ID (no fqdn). Perhaps you can correct this.
> 
> Could someone explain what he is talking about here?
> I am afraid I don't know.

Sometimes I help to interpret, but not when the person being unclear
cannot bother to use civil language.

Re: [OT]

[Randy]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <tbANe.159$Vg7.100@trnddc06>, Randy <abuse@127.0.0.1> writes:
> 
>>Adrian Knoth wrote:
> 
> 
>>>BTW: your postings sucks pretty much: no valid From, non-unique
>>>     message-ID (no fqdn). Perhaps you can correct this.
>>
>>Could someone explain what he is talking about here?
>>I am afraid I don't know.
> 
> 
> Sometimes I help to interpret, but not when the person being unclear
> cannot bother to use civil language.

Yes, I hear you.  I thought he was quite rude for no reason.
I just don't know if he even has a valid point.
I'm wondering why he was looking at the header instead of the message.
Maybe he is some hacker looking for a person's ID to steal.  Who knows.

Re: [OT]

[Adrian Knoth]

Randy <abuse@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>>>>BTW: your postings sucks pretty much: no valid From, non-unique
>>>>     message-ID (no fqdn). Perhaps you can correct this.
>>>Could someone explain what he is talking about here?
>>>I am afraid I don't know.
>> Sometimes I help to interpret, but not when the person being unclear
>> cannot bother to use civil language.
> Yes, I hear you.  I thought he was quite rude for no reason.

I'm sorry, I never intended to be rude. I'm not a native speaker
and I don't know that "sucks" is so negative. My intention was
to only state that there are some points which could be improved.

Though I prefer complete From-lines and especially a valid
reply-to-address (which would let me tell all those things by
mail instead of disturbing the audience with it), the real
point to critizize is the violation of RFC850.

I think you're completely new to usenet so I guess you don't
know what I'm talking about. Actually it isn't even your fault,
your software is doing wrong.

If you read <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc850.html> and especially
2.1.7 you'll see that your message-id *must* contain a real
domain name. Yours (trnddc03) isn't sufficient.

The sense of putting a valid domain name there is to guarantee
the uniqueness of message-ids. That's important to identify
every single posting all over the world. Any collision would
break the primary key property. It's like two persons sharing the
same name: you're always getting into trouble when referring
to one of them ;)

> I'm wondering why he was looking at the header instead of
> the message. Maybe he is some hacker looking for a person's
> ID to steal.  Who knows.

You're kidding?


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Re: [OT]

[Randy]

> Though I prefer complete From-lines and especially a valid
> reply-to-address (which would let me tell all those things by
> mail instead of disturbing the audience with it), the real
> point to critizize is the violation of RFC850.
>
> I think you're completely new to usenet so I guess you don't
> know what I'm talking about. Actually it isn't even your fault,
> your software is doing wrong.
>

OK Mozilla, Thunderbird and outlook express all do the same thing.  I am 
guessing that my mail programs either are all "in violation" or that my ISP 
makes up the message ID.  Either way it seems to be out of my hands.