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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Peculiarities of "of" syntax
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:45:07 -0500
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"Alejandro R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com> writes:

> The following GNAT 2019-rejected examples of iterating with the new "of"
> are giving me some pause if this is an oversight in the feature, a bug
> in the compiler, or actually intended for some good reason:

The syntax rules require a name after "of", and neither "Arr & Arr"
nor "(Arr & Arr)" are names.  The reason it didn't catch the incorrect
"others" is that GNAT doesn't run semantic analysis if there are syntax
errors (but there's a switch to make it do so).

- Bob