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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada can't initialize (aggregate) array of length 1?
Date: 13 Dec 1994 22:23:39 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1994-12-13T22:23:39-05:00
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Gentle's response to this question:

:     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 => ('[',']'));

is wrong, it is perfectly fine to initialze an object of type stone with
the string literal "[]
" which is essentially identical to the aggregate ('[',']')

the ONLY problem is the one element aggregate.