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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ccd8ee851fe2e00 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: Record aggregate question (language lawyer needed!) Date: 1996/06/25 Message-ID: <31CFD96F.FF6D5DF@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162059276 references: <31CAEC7B.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <4qlv2a$1pf@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Philip Brashear wrote: > > In article <31CAEC7B.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com>, > Theodore E. Dennison wrote: > >Technically, I think they are of two different (anonymous) types, > >both of which happen to be subtypes of STRING. > > > 'Fraid not, T.E.D. As you (almost) stated yourself, they're both of type > STRING. It's type that counts here, not subtype. Note the component > declarations themselves: they include a type name (STRING), plus a constraint. > They're not anonymous. > > (This whole question of "others" in aggregates has always been a tough one > to explain.) ...Tough to figure out too. :-) -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |