From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fedeff7ff0412573 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-13 22:31:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C9043C2.D1AB315C@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question of data type References: <3c8ff5df$1_7@news3.uncensored-news.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 06:31:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.205.161 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1016087492 209.86.205.161 (Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:31:32 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:31:32 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:31:33 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21195 Date: 2002-03-14T06:31:32+00:00 List-Id: Bigg K wrote: > > X is a record. If I want to assign X'Address to Y, what data type (integer, > float, etc) does Y have to be? The type of X is immaterial. The simple answer is, you can't. I know this is technically the wrong answer, but I've seen so much code recently that unnecessarily uses addresses that I suspect that this answer is conceptually correct. -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail