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From: Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: renames and enum values
Date: 2000/04/11
Date: 2000-04-11T15:37:09+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38F3461B.59952CA4@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8cp1hd$3so$1@nnrp1.deja.com

> > What I really want here is a rename of a data type,
> > which doesn't seem to be available in ada...
>
> subtype x is y;
>
> why isn't that good enough for renaming purposes????

S Harris gave the "correct" answer to why the above
is not correct (I started this thread, so I get to say what is
correct with respect to my intent).  He said:

>It really doesn't rename the type.
>Enumeration literals are not available from
>the subtype.

To get to the values associated with subtype "x" you
still have to reference type "y".  This defeats the whole
point of doing the "rename" (implemented as a subtype).

-al





  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-11  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <38ECE0EB.4BD4A53E@mindspring.com>
2000-04-07  0:00 ` HELP: renames and enum values Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07  0:00   ` Al Johnston
2000-04-09  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09  0:00       ` dale
2000-04-09  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-10  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-13  0:00             ` John English
2000-04-13  0:00               ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-13  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-14  0:00                 ` John English
2000-04-13  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-04-13  0:00                 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-13  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-14  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
2000-04-10  0:00       ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-11  0:00       ` Al Johnston [this message]
2000-04-10  0:00     ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-11  0:00       ` Al Johnston
2000-04-11  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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