From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5037bf0bb33408c8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-09 02:35:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "&" for array versus "&" for Strings Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1034156114 3918 129.241.83.78 (9 Oct 2002 09:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:35:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29607 Date: 2002-10-09T09:35:14+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:41:43 GMT, Robert A Duff wrote: > > I'm not surprised that such a bug has never been noticed before. Most > people don't write code that uses "&" to concatenate two Strings to > produce something other than String! First, it's confusing (to humans, > I mean, in addition to compilers). I have already changed my code (the actual code that I posted was an example) to use "and" instead so that it is write: Authors => "Ada" and "Babbel" Preben -- Ada95 is good for you. http://libre.act-europe.fr/Software_Matters/02-C_pitfalls.pdf