Re: Basic issue with dotted notation and tagged types

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:46:49 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Le 22/10/2012 00:55, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>> [Snip]
>> Will this display `A` or `B`? Actually, the program compiled with GNAT
>> 4.6, displays `A`. It displays the same even when the two commented
>> lines are commented‑out and thus the function `F` is declared before the
>> field `F`. I can't remember if the RM have special wordings about it,
>> but I feel this does not honour the principle of least surprise. May be
>> this should be disallowed, to access any one of the two, when both are
>> together visible from a scope?
>> 
> RM2005 4.1.3 (9.2/2): "The designator of the subprogram shall not be the
> same as that of a component of the tagged type visible at the point of
> the selected_component."
> 
> BTW, this corresponds to /my/ view of least surprise: a prefixed view is
> merely a writing simplification, and you are always free not to use it
> without losing any functionality. OTOH, you would have no other way to
> access a subcomponent. Therefore, it makes sense that the subcomponent
> is "stronger".

From a wider (and simpler) point of view a record component is just a pair
of primitive operations (getter/setter) on the record type. That makes them
conflicting with any user-defined primitive operations of same signature.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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