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From: Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com>
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Adam is right: it is confusion with the predefined "&" for arrays, when the elements are arrays. (But the compiler error messages indicate undecision only between the two Vectors "&" functions.) So my new solution is

function "+" (L : My_Vectors.Vector; R : My_Element_Type) 
   renames My_Vectors."&"; 

function "+" (L, R : My_Element_Type) 
   renames My_Vectors."&"; 

V : My_Vectors.Vector := Element1 + Element2 + Element3;

A bit less inelegant.

/* But more than parenthesis or T'(...) in my view. */

Thanks a lot. This group is outstanding.