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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/09
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In article <7r8t21$ov5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> , Robert Dewar 
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com>  wrote:

>> 2) the ability to cast away const w/o using
> Sys.Addr_To_Acc_Convs
>
> Sorry, no idea what this means

To be able to modify an in-mode subprogram parameter.  Essentially, what ACT
did to implement the function Random in GNAT.

(The locution "cast away const" comes from C++.)


>> 6) the ability to invoke a constructor/initializer for limited types in the
>> declarative region
>
> sorry, I do not know what you mean here, and I certainly
> do not know what a constructor is, example would be useful.

In Ada, constructor = function.  (That is why there's a problem.)

Example:

   type LT is limited private;

   function Init (<some params>) return LT;

   ...
   declare
     O : LT := Init (...);
   begin