Re: Constant record components

["ME" <abcdefg@nonodock.net>]

Randy,

What was the rationale behind prohibiting constant record components?
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message 
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>> Yes, why not. Anyway , discriminants allow a type of constant component 
>> so
>> the mechanism is possible.
>
> Discriminants are limited to elementary types, so the issues don't come 
> up.
> (There are no controlled elementary types.) But it would be very odd to
> limit constant components to elementary types; it would appear to users to
> be a bug in the language.
>
> So the existence of discriminants don't prove much about the feasibility 
> of
> constant record components.
>
>                    Randy.
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