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From: "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Instantiating private types with discriminants?
Date: 10 May 2006 07:21:22 -0700
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rick H wrote :
> Thanks, Ludovic.  Bearing in mind that, in my original example, Var_A is
> declared as an *access* to the class-wide type, I tried declaring the
> various Put procedures as you showed, and then simply dereferencing
> Var_A when calling Put:
>    Put (Var_A.all);
> However, the compiler (gnat) complained that I cannot use a class-wide
> argument in this case.

This sounds suspicious; it should work. Could you post your full source
code? I think there may be a small mistake somewhere.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.