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Subject: Re: Renaming vs assignment to constant
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On Friday, December 6, 2013 1:59:21 PM UTC-8, Shark8 wrote:

> I think the big difference happens when the result has subcomponents:
>     ch   : constant Character:= 'X';             -- Character X.
>     temp : String  renames Character'Image(ch);  -- Its image: 'X'.
>     ch2  : Character renames temp(2);            -- The unquoted character.

What is the big difference between that and
     
    ch   : constant Character:= 'X';                -- Character X.
    temp : constant String := Character'Image(ch);  -- Its image: 'X'.
    ch2  : Character renames temp(2);               -- The unquoted character.

???  Maybe I'm having a bad day, but I don't see it.

                               -- Adam