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
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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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