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-Thread: 103376,db88d0444fafe8eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Surprise in array concatenation Date: 06 Sep 2005 10:58:22 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1126018702 31207 192.74.137.71 (6 Sep 2005 14:58:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:58:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4473 Date: 2005-09-06T10:58:22-04:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org writes: > > Heh? "Marginal utility" means the same as "not dirt common"! > Exceptional intelligence is not "dirt common", but I believe it is > of more than marginal utility. Ya got me there! ;-) Now, do you claim that the vast majority of empty Strings in Ada have bounds 1..0 because programmer lack the exceptional intelligence it would take to use 10..-100 and the like? ;-) Maybe 10..-100 is "not dirt common" because it has "marginal utility"! - Bob