Re: Quick question regarding limited type return syntax

[NiGHTS <nights@unku.us>]

On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:48:34 PM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
> On 30-Jul-14 17:51, NiGHTS wrote:
> 
> >   return  Object (Connection_String'Access) do null; end return;
> 
> 
> 
> That should be
> 
>     return Object'(Connection_String'Access);
> 
> the extended-return is the form
> 
>    return object:type [:= value] do
> 
>      sequence_of_statements
> 
>    end return;
> 
> 
> 
> as you can see there's no 'do' there -- which is what the compiler was 
> 
> complaining about: there was no ';' between the value and "do".
> 
> 
> 
> > return  Object (Connection_String'Access);
> 
> 
> 
> The reason this is failing is because it's reading the parens as 
> 
> conversion, not qualification -- for qualification you need a "'"; 
> 
> personally I'm a fan of using named parameters when using qualification 
> 
> and generating objects.
> 
> 
> 
>     return Object'(Parameters => Connection_String'Access, others => <>);

This was another syntax I had tried. Here is the error I am getting with your syntax:

Expected type "Object" defined at (...)
Found type access to subtype of "Standard.String" at line (...)


Just to be clear this is my modification:

package body Test is
   function Create(...) return Object is
      ...
   begin
      return Object'(Connection_String'Access);
   end;
   ...
end Test;