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: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-15 16:46:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-text.cableinet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <1041908422.928308@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1041997309.165001@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042086217.253468@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042477504.547640@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042651417.215661@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E25FA9A.2549C263@adaworks.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:46:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.52.70 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1042677978 80.195.52.70 (Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:46:18 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:46:18 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33063 Date: 2003-01-16T00:46:18+00:00 List-Id: On 16/1/03 00:16, in article AQmV9.4910$K63.170955@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net, "chris.danx" wrote: > Richard Riehle wrote: > ... >> declare >> SUBTYPE S IS INTEGER RANGE READ .. READ; >> A : array(S) of Integer := (others => 0); >> begin -- Dynamic_Array ... >> for I in A'Range >> loop >> Integer_Text_IO.Get(A(I)); >> end loop; ... > > Hey, that's nifty! Never knew you could do stuff like that. (Not referring specifically to Chris.) Many who learned to program in 1970s languages and their satanic progeny (we all know what languages I mean) find it hard to credit the full dynamic power of Ada. 8-) Those who cut their teeth on Algols 60..68 have it easier in that respect. -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")