Re: Syntax Question

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

First off, let me advise you of this: YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! :-)

Why you want to go from Ada (note character case) to C, I do not know, but
it is *definitely* a step backward.

The code you refer to is a case where "some_var" is of a tagged record type
("some_type"). The tagged record type is itself derived from another type in
which it extends the original type with two new fields: attr_x and attr_y.
What you have in the assignment statement is an "aggregate" which is a sort
of literal. It specifies data values to be assigned to some_var that include
values for the extended record fields.

There is no equivalent to this in C.

MDC
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"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);
>
> Robby