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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: need help learning Ada for a modula-2 programmer
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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