From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: String literals and wide_string literals - how?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:48:39 +0200
Date: 2007-04-20T22:47:28+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wk5ssmauy217$.v6n76a544he0.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f0b3e8$vec$1@jacob-sparre.dk
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:16:11 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
> news:wccbqhjw0we.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> ...
>> String literals are not necessarily of type String; they can be of any
>> "string type". A string type is any one-dimensional array of some
>> character type. You can even do weird things like this:
>>
>> type Bit is ('0', '1');
>
> That's not that weird. My favorite example of this came from an early Ada 83
> book:
>
> type Roman_Digit is ('I', 'V', 'X', 'L', 'C', 'D', 'M');
What about a DNA-sequences?
type Nucleotide is ('A', 'C', 'G', 'T');
type DNA_Sequence is array (Positive range <>) of Nucleotide;
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-20 10:07 String literals and wide_string literals - how? Gerd
2007-04-20 14:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-04-20 14:55 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-20 19:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-04-20 20:01 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-04-20 20:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-20 20:02 ` Robert A Duff
2007-05-21 2:33 ` David Thompson
2007-05-22 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-23 18:42 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
[not found] ` <f324h5$fna$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>
2007-05-24 21:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-05-23 2:27 ` Keith Thompson
2007-07-01 1:00 ` David Thompson
2007-05-23 12:28 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2007-04-20 20:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2007-04-20 22:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-21 9:41 ` Simon Wright
2007-04-22 0:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-22 9:45 ` Simon Wright
2007-04-22 20:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-22 21:18 ` Simon Wright
2007-04-23 1:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-22 1:00 ` Robert A Duff
2007-04-20 14:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
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