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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Array slices and types
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:45:39 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 20, 7:51 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider this:
>
>    type Name is new String (1 .. 10);
>
>    N : Name;
>
>    Some_String : String := "abc";
>
> How can I assign Some_String to the beginning slice (ie. to the first
> three characters) of N?
> Everything that I can think of (short of copying characters
> individually) hits the type compatibility problem.

Do you really need a new *type*, as opposed to:

   subtype Name is String (1 .. 10);

???

(The answer may be yes.  But I would not declare Name to be a new
*type*, rather than a subtype, unless there's a reason for this---such
as Name being declared earlier as a private type.  I just wanted to
make sure that you were aware that declaring a subtype is a
possibility.)

                                 -- Adam