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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:27:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rtpdb4$qj5$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c0409256-1edd-4a06-8243-7120ea38b632n@googlegroups.com

On 2021-01-14 12:38, AdaMagica wrote:

> Also for enumeration indices, sliding does not make sense.

Sliding does not make sense for any type of index.

Again, people are confusing indices (cardinal) with positions (ordinal). 
These are distinct concepts and different types. E.g. A'Length is an 
ordinal numeral and thus has the type Universal_Integer. A'First is a 
cardinal numeral and is of the index type.

> So why is the bad habit dangerous to think that the first element must have index one (or zero)? For me, this is a non sequitur.

The first element may have no index at all, e.g. the first element of a 
list, the first character read from the input stream etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-14 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05 11:04 Lower bounds of Strings Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 11:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-05 12:32   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-05 13:40     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-05 14:31       ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 17:24         ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 18:28           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-05 21:02             ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-07 10:38               ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-07 21:39                 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-07 22:38                   ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-05 12:24 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-01-05 12:49 ` Simon Wright
2021-01-05 12:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-06  3:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-06  9:13   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-07  0:17     ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-07  9:57       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-07 22:03         ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-08  9:04           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-08 17:23           ` Shark8
2021-01-08 20:19             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-09  2:18               ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-09 10:53                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-12  8:19                   ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-12  9:37                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-09  2:31             ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-09 14:52               ` Why UTF-8 (was Re: Lower bounds of Strings) Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-09 18:08                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-12  7:58                   ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-11 21:35               ` Lower bounds of Strings Shark8
2021-01-12  8:12                 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-12 20:51                   ` Shark8
2021-01-12 22:56                     ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-13 12:00                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-13 13:27                         ` AdaMagica
2021-01-13 13:53                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-13 14:08                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-14 11:38 ` AdaMagica
2021-01-14 12:27   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2021-01-14 13:31   ` AdaMagica
2021-01-14 14:02   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-14 14:34     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-14 15:28       ` Shark8
2021-01-14 15:41         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-19 21:02           ` G.B.
2021-01-19 22:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-20 20:10               ` G.B.
2021-01-20 20:25                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-15 10:24   ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 11:41     ` J-P. Rosen
2021-01-15 17:35       ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 19:36         ` Egil H H
2021-01-16 12:57           ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-17 14:10         ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-19  5:48           ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-19  6:13         ` Gautier write-only address
2021-01-15 11:48     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-15 13:34       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-15 13:56       ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 15:12         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-15 17:22           ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-15 21:10             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-15 14:00       ` Stephen Davies
2021-01-16  9:30     ` G.B.
2021-01-16 13:13       ` Stephen Davies
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