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From: Larry Hazel <lhazel@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Anonymous array clarification.
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:26:34 -0500
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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