Re: What exactly is a 'record' in Ada 95?

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

matthias_k <nospam@digitalraid.com> wrote:
: So, what is a 'record' in Ada? Do I have to think about it like
: a struct in C? It seems to serve the same purpose. Is 'record' the
: only type modifier? Where are the differences?

For values of a record type, there are useful notations.
For example, a two component record value might be written as

  (name => "Frank", age => 56)

or alternatively

  (age => 56, name => "Frank")

or alternatively

  Person'(name => "Frank", age = 56)

or altenatively

  Person'("Frank", 56)

or just

  ("Frank", 56)


I'll leave it to you to find out what other alternatives there are,
if any.
In any case the compiler will check that _all_ record components get
values.

-- Georg