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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: C-style 'union' in Ada?
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com> wrote in message
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> "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com> writes:
>
> > The trick (if you could call it that!) is to include a default value
> > for the discriminant in the type definition. You can then change its
> > value at will. If you don't have a default then you have to contraint
> > the object when you declare it - which then fixes it to that value.
>
> Yes, but you can only change it with a whole record assignment.

of course - and I think this is what the OP wanted