From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not>
Subject: Re: Ok - WHAT are those "Maps.Identity" things ???
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 10:49:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sr92c3$ovp$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <WcidnROWEIzHNUr8nZ2dnUU7-b3NnZ2d@earthlink.com>
On 2022-01-07 03:41, 1.AAC0832 wrote:
>>
>> and lists 6 functions named Index (and 2 for Index_Non_Blank). Of these I
>> mostly use the one at paragraph 9:
>>
>> 9 function Index (Source : in String;
>> Pattern : in String;
>> Going : in Direction := Forward;
>> Mapping : in Maps.Character_Mapping
>> := Maps.Identity)
>> return Natural;
>>
>> with the defaults for the last 2 parameters. Occasionally I've used a Going =>
>> Backward,
>
>
> I'm using unbounded strings and there's a version in
> that library with the same params - but Gnat seems
> to DEMAND the last two params. Might try the fixed
> library by casting my unbounded to string ...
I missed that detail in your original msg. Ada.Strings.Unbounded (ARM A.4.5) has
similar Index functions, but note that Source is Unbounded_String and Pattern is
String. As Brukardt said, without more detail we can't tell what is really going
on, but my experience is that GNAT will not require defaulted parameters. More
likely GNAT is trying to do overload resolution when there is no visible
subprogram that matches the parameters you are passing; the resulting error msgs
are not clear.
Experienced Ada users find that Unbounded_String is needed a lot less than is
expected by people coming from languages where strings are magic. Unless you
need data structures with varying-length strings, you don't often need them.
> I've been programming since a tad before the dawn of the
> Apples and Commodores - punch cards and serial terminals
> wired to the mini-mainframe, FORTRAN, COBOL, that horrible
> stuff. For some reason I just can't grock a lot of the Ada
> docs. Lots and lots of DESCRIPTIONS about how to do things
> but a "picture" is worth a thousand words ...
I also started out with FORTRAN-66 on punched cards, but my experience is the
opposite: Ada (without the features that were mistakes) supports very well the
way I engineer S/W.
--
Jeff Carter
"Hello! Smelly English K...niggets."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-05 0:54 Ok - WHAT are those "Maps.Identity" things ??? 1.AAC0831
2022-01-05 5:49 ` Rod Kay
2022-01-07 2:31 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-07 3:39 ` Gautier write-only address
2022-01-07 4:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-01-10 5:13 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-10 10:19 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2022-01-11 5:20 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-07 11:48 ` G.B.
2022-01-10 4:49 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-05 13:01 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-01-07 2:41 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-07 9:49 ` Jeffrey R.Carter [this message]
2022-01-10 4:46 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-10 15:05 ` Simon Wright
2022-01-11 5:17 ` 1.AAC0832
2022-01-11 11:33 ` Niklas Holsti
2022-01-12 4:22 ` 1.AAC0832
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