Re: Re : Run time sizing of arrays - HELP

[l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE)]

Marcel Hawtin (hawtinml@aston.ac.uk) wrote:

: I'm new to Ada, and was wondering if it is possible for the size of arrays to be
: determined at run time.

: For example, many years ago it was possible to say in BASIC something like :

: 10 INPUT A
: 20 INPUT B
: 20 DIM(A,B)

The equivalent in Ada would go something like:

  A, B : Positive;
  ..
  Pos_IO.Get(A);
  Pos_IO.Get(B);

  declare
     type Some_Dynamic_Array_Type is array (1 .. A, 1 .. B) of Some_Object;
     C : Some_Dynamic_Array_Type;
  begin
  ..

  Notice I said "Something" like, since (1) I don't have an Ada compiler on
  this machine and (2) there's several other ways (all better, I'm sure) for
  creating C and (3) it's been a long time since I wrote any BASIC.  

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