Re: Vector (container) initialization: the schizophrenic ampersand

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Monday, May 21, 2012 10:04:30 AM UTC-7, Robert A Duff wrote:
> Adam Beneschan writes:
> 
> > On Saturday, May 19, 2012 9:15:44 AM UTC-7, Robert A Duff wrote:
> >
> >> You don't need to qualify everything.  Just enough to disambiguate.
> >> I don't know what operators are visible in this example,
> >> nor what the context is, but this should work:
> >> 
> >>     T'(Element1 & Element2 & Element3)
> >
> > Sorry, it won't work.
> 
> Hmm.  You're probably right.  I'm not sure, because I haven't
> seen what "&" operators we're talking about, nor what
> the context is (is the concatenation assigned into
> a variable, passed to an overloaded procedure, ...?).

"T" is the Vector type from an instance of Ada.Containers.Vectors.  The & operators are also from the instance and have been made directly visible with "use".  The & operators can take all four combinations of Element&Element, Element&Vector, Vector&Element, Vector&Vector.  

                        -- Adam