Re: Unconstrained arrays

[eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <9308111528.aa04642@Paris.ics.uci.edu> kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU
 (Kenneth Anderson) writes:

   > I have declared the following type (DynamicString is an imported type)
   >     type Str_Array is array (Natural range <>) of DynamicString;
   > Later when I try to declare objects of this type, the compiler
   > likes this...but it does not like this
   >     Viewers : str_array(1 .. 1) := (Create("text_artist"));

   >   Can someone help me out on this?  Why can't I declare AND initialize
   > an array of only one element?

   You can, but a single value in parentheses is treated as a
parenthesized expression not an aggregate (see 4.3(4)).  Try using
named notation:

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


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					Robert I. Eachus

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