Re: Easy question about Character manipulation

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 00:51 +0000, (see below) wrote:
On 29/1/07 21:30, in article 1170106218.6329.63.camel@localhost, "Georg
Bauhaus" <bauhaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unlike Pascal, for example, types in Ada are different when
they have different names.

On the contrary, this *exactly* like (ISO Standard) Pascal.

I don't think so, if a Pascal compiler is supposed
to determine "the same type" (exact same type) by looking
at the definition, not the name. Otherwise two compilers
claiming to support ISO Pascal are broken:

program p;

type
T = 1 .. 3;
S = 1 .. 3;
var
x : T;
y : S;
begin
x := y; { fine in Pascal }
end.

This program seems to be Standard Pascal, and compiles.
The corresponding Ada program will not compile:

procedure p is
type T is range 1 .. 3;
type S is range 1 .. 3;
x : T;
y : S
begin
x := y; -- not the same type, compilation error
end;


.

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