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On Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:20:15 UTC+2, Niklas Holsti  wrote:
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> 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