From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,789720372441e329 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Marc A. Criley" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What exactly is a 'record' in Ada 95? Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:12:06 -0500 Message-ID: <2q8ep8Ft4e08U1@uni-berlin.de> References: X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de iHj5Jka73d8IbLaAyp7jeAovIU7ACmovlry/Tnyqp8K1ct0Fdg X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3479 Date: 2004-09-08T08:12:06-05:00 List-Id: "matthias_k" 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