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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Arrays with discriminated task components
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 17:32:43 +0200
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On 2022-12-25 0:41, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:
> On 2022-12-24 19:05, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>> On 2022-12-24 13:44, AdaMagica wrote:
>>>
>>> Now I want an array of these tasks, where each task knows its 
>>> identity (the index) via the discriminant, an
>>> iterated_component_association: >
>>> Arr: array (Index) of T := (for I in Index => ???);
>>
>> One way is to give the discrimant a default value that is a function 
>> call that returns a new identifier on each call:
> 
> No, this does not guarantee that the task's discriminant is its index in 
> the array, which is a requirement of the question.


Right, I did not take that requirement into account, apologies for my 
inattention. Indeed the tasks in the array are initialized in an 
arbitrary order, not necessarily in increasing index order.