From: Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Expectation of Access Value Equality
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 00:25:07 GMT
Date: 2003-09-06T00:25:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4qzqoj8i.fsf@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bja3fi$glkjh$1@ID-25716.news.uni-berlin.de
"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> (a) Would you be surprised by:
>
> Print( (+"foo",+"bar",+"",+"") );
>
> printing three lines?
No. That's what I expected it to print.
> (b) Would you be surprised by:
>
> Print( (+"foo",+"bar",+"hum",+"foo") );
>
> printing one line?
No. That's what I expected it to print.
> (c) What would you think of an implementation that caused this behaviour?
> (What would you think of an implementation that printed four lines in both
> cases?)
I think your program is broken, not any compiler implementation. The
problem is that you have items identical to your sentinel.
> (d) I'd be grateful for a very brief indication of your level and broad
> area(s) of programming experience, in Ada and other languages.
I have been programming in Ada for over 15 years. I am fluent in Ada95 and C++.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-05 13:35 Expectation of Access Value Equality Nick Roberts
2003-09-05 13:02 ` chris
2003-09-05 17:56 ` Nick Roberts
2003-09-05 19:10 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-05 19:32 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-09-05 19:35 ` Simon Wright
2003-09-06 0:25 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
2003-09-06 2:41 ` Steve
2003-09-06 22:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-09-08 9:08 ` Preben Randhol
2003-09-08 9:09 ` Andy
2003-09-09 22:31 ` Nick Roberts
2003-09-10 18:39 ` Mário Amado Alves
2003-09-23 10:46 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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