Re: Thanks guys..my project and my many problems

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Paul Gregory wrote:
>   type English is (big, black, cat, dog, es, small, the, white);
>   type French is (grand, noir, chat, chien, est, petit, le, blanc);

This is the core of your difficulties. Since the dictionary is
meant to be extensible (as you yourself have noticed), using
enumerations to encode the words is inappropriate - these types
are fixed at compile-time, and you cannot add to them at runtime.

You need to represent your words as strings, and maintain a mapping
table between English and French that way. It would be easy in C++
or Perl, which come with built in map containers. In Ada, you'll
have to roll your own.