Re: Novice Ada Programmer Stumped By Simple Type Declaration!

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

> >The compiler is not "confused", it merely follows the rules
> >of Ada, you really should not imply that somehow the
> 
> Well, since he was indeed not calling the correct routine, that is true.

It's not that I was not calling the right routine, as much as it was I
had forgotten the right routine was in a nested package. The *real*
problem is that I had other, overloaded functions with limilar argument
types, so the error messages were unusually unhelpful. They were
pointing me at a completely unrelated routine that *was* in scope, and
telling me I had the wrong argument types.

This is why I'm doing this project - to run into all these kinds of
problems before there's any expectation from anyone that I already know
what I'm doing. ;-)

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Darren New 
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                   Who is this Dr. Ibid anyway, 
                  and how does he know so much?