Re: What exactly is a 'record' in Ada 95?

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

"matthias_k" <nospam@digitalraid.com> wrote:

> I have to do some research for university about the Ada language,
> but I have to learn it from scratch. There's a good chance that
> I will be here over the next couple weeks asking questions about
> things that may be trivial for an experienced Ada programmer --
> deal with it :)
>
> So, what is a 'record' in Ada? Do I have to think about it like
> a struct in C? It seems to serve the same purpose. Is 'record' the
> only type modifier? Where are the differences?

While we'll be glad to help answer your questions, I think you'll be
ill-served if you attempt to learn about the language by posting disjoint
questions about the various syntactic and semantic pieces that define it.

I'd encourage you to take just a few hours to go over some on-line Ada
training material to give you a coherent overview of the language, and then
we'll help in those areas in which you have questions or need to have the
blanks filled in. A basic understanding of the language on your part will
help give us some common understanding and terminology that will help in
your research.

So here's a pointer to a collection of on-line Ada resources, which includes
both complete books and tutorials: www.adapower.com/learn

Come back soon!

Marc A. Criley
McKae Technologies
www.mckae.com