Re: Unconstrained arrays

[news.crd.ge.com!e7sa!groleau@uunet.uu.net (Wes Groleau x1240 C73-8)]

In article <9308111528.aa04642@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU
 (Kenneth Anderson) writes:
>   Viewers : str_array(1 .. 1) := (Create("text_artist"));
>--### A:error: RM 8.3: no visible identifier is of type str_array

Part of the problem is that Verdix (the "ghostwriter" of SunAda) apparently
hired non-English speakers to write their English error messages.  MANY of
their message do not state what the problem actually is.  Others are on the
right track, but taken literally say exactly the oposite of what they meant.

The other part is one of Ada 83's imperfections  (if you're Ted Holden, that's
another word for federal disaster area).

The fix is:
   Viewers : str_array(1 .. 1) := ( 1 => Create("text_artist") );

BTW, Create looks like something in one of those packages I complained about
in my other post, and so does the name DynamicString.  Are you stuck with that
package?  If not, are you in a hurry?  I could give you my package, but it 
would take me a while to transfer it from a closed system to the Internet.

Wes G.