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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,90514f9a192a4997 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-05 06:58:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!194.168.222.22.MISMATCH!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Expectation of Access Value Equality References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:02:41 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1062770334 81.98.236.164 (Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:58:54 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:58:54 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42177 Date: 2003-09-05T15:02:41+02:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > (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?) It wouldn't be obeying the typing rules of the language. Perhaps you meant A_String_Array to accesses to A_String? If so, (a) I would expect 4 lines (b) ditto (c) it'd be working correctly iiu the languages rules correctly. > (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. Familiar: Ada, Java, Pascal Ok: C, SQL Dabbled In: C++, Erlang, Haskell I'm a student with 0 years industry service behind me so I don't use Ada everyday, if that's relevant. Chris