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Subject: Re: Proposal: Auto-allocation of Indefinite Objects
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On Friday, 3 April 2020 at 23:48:43 UTC+1, Stephen Davies wrote:
> type Node_Type is record 
> Item : new Element_Type; 
> Prev : Node_Ptr_Type; 
> Next : Node_Ptr_Type; 
> end record; 

Perhaps a better way to think of this is as a discriminated record without
an explicit discriminant? In which case maybe a different syntax than "new"
would be appropriate?