From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: How to initiate part of a string?
Date: 1998/09/29
Date: 1998-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn710ank.1uc.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6uevbf$nr4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:32:14 GMT, dewarr@my-dejanews.com
<dewarr@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>In article <360a8549.265252@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>,
> tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
>> >Txt: String(1..100) := (28..31=>"abcd", Others=>' ');
>> It looks nice, but it doesn't compile.
>
>Clearly this is illegal, compare with the obviously legal
>
> Txt: String(1..100) := (28..31=>'x', Others=>' ');
>
>Clearly these cannot both be type correct. If you expect
>the top one to compile, you don't have a precise view of
>what is going on semantically.
Would
Txt: String(1..100) := (28..31 => 'a','b','c','d', Others => ' ');
be a good compromise in this situation? it looks nice and keeps the
same semantics. It then opens the possibility of
Txt: string(1..100) := (28..31 => ('a'..'d'), Others => ' ');
- Aidan
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-24 0:00 How to initiate part of a string? Hans Marqvardsen
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-24 0:00 ` Bob Fletcher
1998-09-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner [this message]
1998-09-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Frank Ecke
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Frank Ecke
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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