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,ae9506fd4dcf7090 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-21 09:59:58 PST Message-ID: <3DB43068.1010703@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters References: <44hp9.807$_u6.205@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3DA5AE5F.3030902@attbi.com> <3DB03EF1.EE771923@mmm.com> <3DB079ED.2070200@attbi.com> <3ZTs9.1528$Bd4.11780@dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:50:48 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1035219050 198.96.47.195 (Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:50:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:50:50 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29997 Date: 2002-10-21T12:50:48-04:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote: > >> Then the language shall require them to be either initialized or >> *explicitly* specified as uninitialized: > > > It already does: > > O : Some_Type; -- explicitly uninitialized > O : Some_Type := Default; -- explicitly initialized > > It's fairly obvious which is which, and there is no third option > that I know of. Actually, the first case can be initialized if the type is an access type (it is initialized to null). -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg