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From: mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: Interfacing Ada to Unix/execl var. arg. list function?
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 17:37:30 GMT
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In article <37j8pd$ovu@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>#2 won't work because attributes can only be applied to names (i.e. it is
>For problem #2, it is indeed a glitch that to declare a null array
>constant you have to provide a junk initialization value for all the
>values, except of course there AREN'T any values, so that's a bit
>annoying. Of course again you don't need a separate junk variable:
>
>    null_arg_list : constant string_array := (1..0 => new string'(""));
>
>will do fine.

Why even go that far? Why not:

	null_arg_list : constant string_array := (1..0 => null);

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