From: Ian Douglas <ian@vionia.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie question # 2
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:45:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7348444d-f3a1-4bd2-823c-7c67052c0a5co@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hp33fdFlbr2U1@mid.individual.net>
On Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:20:15 UTC+2, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>
> Ada does not have such a feature.
I figured as much, probably "unsafe programming practice" at the end of the day.
> In Ada, you, yourself, have to program the mapping from the name
> (string) to the variable. This can be as simple as an if-then-else cascade:
Yes, I was trying to avoid cascading Ifs or case statement :-)
In this case there are only 5 things so a case statement would be the quickest/easiest, but it would be good to have a better technique for when there are more.
Thanks, Ian
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 18:40 Newbie question # 2 Ian Douglas
2020-08-06 18:56 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-06 19:41 ` Ian Douglas
2020-08-06 21:10 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-07 11:28 ` Ian Douglas
2020-08-06 19:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-08-06 19:45 ` Ian Douglas [this message]
2020-08-06 20:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-08-06 19:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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