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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Re: obsolete ascii? (for language lawyers)
Date: 1999/06/29
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 Peter Hermann <ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> with text_io;
> procedure hello is
>    bell : character := character'val(7);
>  --bell2 : character := bel;  -- is not allowed  :-(
> begin
>   text_io.put_line ("Hallo Welt..." & ascii.bel & bell);
> end hello;

Although ASCII is part of package Standard, and Standard is automatically
WITHed and USEd in every compilation, ASCII isn't automatically USEd.  You must
make use of dot notation or explicitly USE ASCII.
The above will compile, even with the declaration of bell2 uncommented, if you
write "ASCII.bel" instead of "bel" or write "use ASCII;" immediately AFTER
"procedure hello is".
- John Herro
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