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,a81d7835683dac7b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-14 11:22:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F64B1B3.2070305@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bases 1.52 References: <4a4de33a.0309021059.53f71234@posting.google.com> <4060780.x1l89WMggb@linux1.krischik.com> <17eddf9f.0309092349.2ff22de2@posting.google.com> <1301057.xhkpTmYQhd@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1063563721 24.34.139.183 (Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:22:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:22:01 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:22:01 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42483 Date: 2003-09-14T18:22:01+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > The type T'Class is a real type. It has a funny spelling, but it's a > real type. > > You can declare objects of that type, both on the stack, like this: But like unbounded string types, or a discriminated record type without a default value for the discriminant, you must provide an initial value for any objects of type T'Class you declare. (Matt's examples showed this.) It would be nice in Ada 200Y to add a short technical term to describe these types of types. -- Robert I. Eachus "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." -- Jacques Chirac, President of France "As far as France is concerned, you're right." -- Rush Limbaugh