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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:53:42 GMT
Date: 2014-02-03T12:53:42+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qjMHu.18923$Ks5.7414@fx03.fr7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2fnte9ho690kn2vqr2m926rjsvg9asr76s@4ax.com

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:10:16 -0500, agent wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:18:44 GMT, Brian Drummond
> <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>function GetCommandLine return String is
>>   length : natural := 0;
>>BEGIN
>>   for i in 1 to argument_count loop
>>      length := length + argument(i)'length;
>>   end loop;

> No matter what I try, I'm getting a constraint error.  I don't
> understand what's wrong.
> 
> The compiler noticed that FOR i in 1 to argument_count is wrong.
> That's modula-2 syntax.

It's also VHDL syntax : VHDL and Ada are quite similar, and I keep 
switching between them, which is why I got it wrong!

- Brian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-03 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28  1:06 need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer agent
2014-01-28  1:33 ` adambeneschan
2014-01-28  1:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-28 12:18 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-02  2:47   ` agent
2014-02-02  6:09     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-02 15:02       ` agent
2014-02-02 16:00         ` gautier_niouzes
2014-02-02 19:48         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-03  8:24           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-02 17:18     ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-03  0:10       ` agent
2014-02-03  0:36         ` agent
2014-02-03 12:53         ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2014-01-28 22:51 ` Jerry
2014-01-29 12:15   ` Mike H
2014-01-29 20:41     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-29 23:52       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30  9:05         ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-30 14:20       ` Mike H
2014-01-30 14:35         ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-30 15:40           ` Mike H
2014-01-30 23:39         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-31 20:16           ` Mike H
2014-01-29 23:52     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30  1:44       ` Bill Findlay
2014-01-30  2:01         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-01-30 12:24       ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 23:38         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-03 23:12     ` agent
2014-02-04  6:10       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-04 22:38   ` agent
2014-01-29 16:58 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-29 20:43   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-29 22:53     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-01-30 12:13       ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 17:05     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2014-01-30 23:21       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-30  4:29   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-01-30  8:45     ` Where to put change descriptions (Was: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-01-30  9:53     ` need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer Georg Bauhaus
2014-01-30 21:58       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-01-30 16:28     ` Pascal Obry
2014-01-30 17:43       ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-01-30 18:10       ` Simon Wright
2014-01-30 22:38       ` Randy Brukardt
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