Re: Variant record limitation - what's a better solution?

[Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@sandat.dyndns.org>]

Just curious.

This is how you want to do something, and if you want a deeper answer
why not try to state what you want to do on a higher level since Ada is
a high level language.

/Persan



On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 00:52:12 -0700 (PDT)
Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see that I can't do what I'd like to with a variant record. What
> should I be doing?
> 
> Here's an example:
> 
> type
> my_object(X : size_type) is
>        record
>               name : string(1..80);
>               case X is
>                  when small => Y : small_type; -- line 20
>                  when medium => Y : medium_type; -- line 21
>                  when large => Y: large_type; -- line 22
>               end case;
>        end record;
> 
> The errors are:
> line 21  'Y' conflicts with declaration at line 20
> line 22 'Y' conflicts with declaration at line 21
> 
> I was hoping to have a different type depending on the case, but this
> doesn't seem allowed. What would achieve this?