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From: Larry Hazel <lhazel@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Anonymous array clarification.
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:26:34 -0500
Date: 2001-08-20T10:26:34+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B80E5DA.65659B1E@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tY1g7.45466$K6.17744072@news2

McDoobie wrote:
> 
> In Ada one can declare anonymous arrays (an array without a type assigned
> to it.)  However what would such an array be used for, and are the bounds
> on it's use the same as for any other type of array.
> 
> I guess what I'm asking is if I declare an array such as
> 
>         some_array : array(1..N);
> 
> Can I assign values such as '1' '2' '3' 'H' 'y' '-' 'foo' all to the same
> array? 

No, no.  Only the array type is anonymous.  The data type of elements must be
declared.

   some_array : array(1..N) of Integer;

Larry



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-20 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-20  6:18 Anonymous array clarification McDoobie
2001-08-20  8:03 ` Phil Thornley
2001-08-20 16:49   ` Tables vs functions (was Re: Anonymous array clarification.) Ray Blaak
2001-08-20 17:28     ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-20 21:02       ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-08-21 14:13         ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-20  8:29 ` Anonymous array clarification David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-08-20 10:26 ` Larry Hazel [this message]
2001-08-20 13:37 ` Samuel T. Harris
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