From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Lower bounds of Strings
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:12:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rtsbd5$upg$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a249a9a-0b16-431d-8530-3962b25b6498n@googlegroups.com>
On 1/15/21 2:56 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 11:48:27 UTC, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>> type String_Base is array (Positive range <>) of Character;
>> subtype String is String_Base (Positive range 1 .. <>);
>
> I wish it had been this way since the beginning. That way, in those
> rare instances where code is really using the variable lower-bound,
> the use of String_Base would the intention clear. Alas, making that
> change now would break that code.
We have that now, with the substitutions
String_Base => String
String => type S1 (Length : Natural is record
Value : String (1 .. Length);
end record;
or
subtype S1 is String with Dynamic_Predicate => S1'First = 1;
--
Jeff Carter
"[I]t is more important to make the purpose
of the code unmistakable than to display
virtuosity. Even storage requirements and
execution time are unimportant by
comparison ..."
Elements of Programming Style
184
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-15 15:12 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
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 [this message]
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
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox