Re: Syntax Question

[Robby Simpson <rsimpson@ll.mit.edu>]

I have actually been studying ADA for a few months now and have realized
how powerful and easy-to-use it can be, especially in multi-threaded (or
should I say tasking, hehe) environments (especially if you would like
to write code that is actually portable).  To all of those C/C++
programmers out there who would like to learn ADA I must recommend Simon
Johnston's "ADA95 for C and C++ Programmers".  I found that it sped me
along on the way to thoroughly understanding ADA and the only thing that
I found it left out was the simple below code, which, thanks to this
newsgroup, I now understand.

Robby

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Robby Simpson <rsimpson@ll.mit.edu> wrote in message news:<3B44AAE3.DB048BC8@ll.mit.edu>...
> > I have some ADA code I am porting to C (I am new to ADA).  What would
> > the following code mean?
> >
> > some_var : some_type;
> >
> > some_var := (some_other_type with attr_x => value1, attr_y => value2);
> 
> Translating complex Ada code to C is a difficult task under the
> best of conditions, but trying to do it if you do not know Ada is
> likely to be close to impossible. I recommend a thorough study of
> Ada (work through one of the online tutorials, and in particular
> read a good Ada text book describing the use of tagged types).