From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Bounds of Slice's return value
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:32:10 GMT
Date: 2002-01-19T14:32:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccit9yif85.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87adva7h6k.fsf@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Thanks. I'm glad they're nailing it down; it seems to be a needless
> source of hard-to-spot errors, otherwise.
The fact that Ada allows strings to start at other than 1, depending on
where they came from, is a "needless source of hard-to-spot errors" even
in cases where it *is* nailed down. Sigh.
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-19 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-18 23:16 Bounds of Slice's return value Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-19 1:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-19 10:45 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-19 14:32 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2002-01-19 17:19 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-01-21 20:19 ` Matthew Heaney
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