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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Unconstrained Arrays
Date: 20 Mar 2009 10:46:15 +0100
Date: 2009-03-20T10:46:15+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r60smsrc.fsf@nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 46281cbb-2804-41e8-87a0-251c9060d4d1@c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com

sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com> writes:

> There is a deep language-lawyerly reason (which I don't understand)
> why an array like your My_Array can't be aliased (at any rate in
> Ada95); you have to use the initialize-with-aggregate approach.
> Perhaps that's what leads to the initialize-with-aggregate style.

Why doesn't my compiler complain about it then?

And can you please quote the explanation, so the rest of us can
attempt to understand it.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
�When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while
 the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under
 similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more
 interested in Ada!�                                     -- Robert Dewar



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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17  0:59 Unconstrained Arrays belteshazzar
2009-03-17  1:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-17  2:58   ` belteshazzar
2009-03-17  4:15     ` Jeffrey Creem
2009-03-17  5:20     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-17 17:56       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-17 23:10         ` belteshazzar
2009-03-18 18:31           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-20  1:53           ` Peter C. Chapin
2009-03-20  6:45             ` sjw
2009-03-20  9:46               ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2009-03-20 11:40               ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-03-25 21:11                 ` sjw
2009-03-25 22:30                   ` Robert A Duff
2009-03-25 23:28                     ` Randy Brukardt
2009-03-26  0:03                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-26  1:00                         ` Robert A Duff
2009-03-20 12:15               ` christoph.grein
2009-03-20 15:45               ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-23  8:26                 ` belteshazzar
2009-03-25 21:21                 ` sjw
2009-03-25 22:03                   ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-26  1:32                     ` tmoran
2009-03-27  8:39                   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-03-27 20:07                     ` sjw
2009-03-29 16:24                     ` sjw
2009-03-27 11:57                   ` Gautier
2009-03-17 15:33     ` Adam Beneschan
2009-03-17 23:00       ` belteshazzar
2009-03-17 20:14 ` anon
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2001-12-11 18:24 ` Mark Lundquist
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