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From: Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: why "unconstrained subtype in component declaration" while said component given default value ?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 16:55:34 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-05-26T16:55:34-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <067fdb8b-e69c-4ec7-b7ae-50a11dc97d83@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b76440e-ab22-4fcf-8a54-f85a9d4d010a@googlegroups.com>

On Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 6:11:13 PM UTC-4, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> But isn't the situation the same in automatic variables, with arrays whose constraint is only known at run time ? Like this:
> procedure Main is
>    subtype Pos_Little is Positive range 1..56;
>    package Num_Gen is new Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random (Pos_Little);
>    Gen : Num_Gen.Generator;
> begin
>    declare
>       Arr : array (1..Num_Gen.Random(Gen)) of Positive;
>    begin
>       null;
>    end;
> end Main;
> Yet this case is legal.

Record types need to support Representation Clauses, where as normal 
variables do not.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-26 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-26 21:03 why "unconstrained subtype in component declaration" while said component given default value ? Mehdi Saada
2018-05-26 21:40 ` Jere
2018-05-26 22:11   ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-26 23:55     ` Jere [this message]
2018-05-27  0:14       ` Jere
2018-05-27  0:29       ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-27  0:45         ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-27 17:15         ` Shark8
2018-05-27 17:30           ` AdaMagica
2018-05-27 18:17             ` Shark8
2018-05-29  1:28               ` AdaMagica
2018-05-29 17:20                 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-27  7:45   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-26 23:41 ` Shark8
2018-05-27  7:07 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-27 17:22   ` Shark8
2018-05-27 12:24 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-29 22:28   ` Randy Brukardt
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