Re: Ada can't initialize (aggregate) array of length 1?

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In article <3chim1$6v5@gamma.ois.com>, beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) writes:
> Dirk Zoller (duz@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de) wrote:
> 
> :     type stone is array (1..2) of character;
> :     shapes: constant array (1..1) of stone := ("[]");
> 
> Try:
>       shapes: constant array (1..1) of stone := (others => "[]");
> 
> ... Bill

This solution, or
	
	shapes : constant array (1..1) of stone := (1=> "[]");

is/are the correct one.  But I thought your real question was, why doesn't
positional notation work for aggregates of length 1?

I had no idea and was curious myself, so I stuck your example into our
compiler which promptly pointed me to paragraph 4 of the "old" Ada LRM.

It says:

... Aggregates containing a single component association must always
    be given in named notation.

Apparently this was carried into Ada95 as well. 
Thanks for bringing up a new (to me at least) part of Ada.

Joe