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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: How to do it in Ada ?
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Mark Lundquist wrote:
> 
> >   X := new X_Array_Type'((1 .. N => 0));
> 
> What about those double parenthesis... do those look funny?  Well, they
> really are required.

This is incorrect. The syntax for a qualified expression is

qualified_expression ::=
        subtype_mark'(expression) | subtype_mark'aggregate

so the double parens are not required.

>     X := new X_Array_Type (1 .. N) := (others => 0);

This is also incorrect.

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Jeffrey Carter