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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe965693e0a17ca8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-29 07:44:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news-out.nibble.net!hub1.nntpserver.com!easynews!out.nntp.be!propagator-dallas!news-in-dallas.newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B3C86C7.6C780F67@easystreet.com> Subject: Re: GNAT 3.14 NEW FEATURES LIST Current as of May 30th, 2001 Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:44:46 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:44:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9256 Date: 2001-06-29T14:44:46+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B3C86C7.6C780F67@easystreet.com>, Al Christians says... > >This shows > >> >> NF-314-7910-004 Uniform behavior for Slice subprograms >> >> In packages Ada.Strings.Bounded/Ada.Strings.Unbounded, the Slice >> function now returns with the bounds of the slice expressions, >> rather than with a lower bound of 1.This was discussed in the ISO >> WG9 ARG, and it was agreed that this was the preferable approach. This > change also improves the efficiency of these two functions. > >Will that break much code written otherwise? Funny, that's the exact thought I had. However, the folks at ACT port a *lot* of code themselves. I figure its not going to cause me more trouble that it causes them. :-) The only other compatability issue I saw in that (huge) list of chages was that they are changing the default Linux thread library to native instead of FSU. I can see arguments either way on that one. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com