Re: Ada can't initialize (aggregate) array of length 1?

[gentle@cnj.digex.net (Gentle)]

On Mon, 12 Dec 94 08:12:30 CET, Dirk Zoller (duz@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de) wrote:
: Simplified I did this:

:     type stone is array (1..2) of character;
:     shapes: constant array (1..1) of stone := ("[]");
:     ____________________________________________^

  You're trying to squash a string of length 2 into a character space.
Try initializing like this:

  shapes: constant array (1..1) of stone := (1 => ('[',']'));

Although type stone could have been declared as a subtype of STRING of
length 2, then your initialization would have worked.

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