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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:40:01 +0100
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christoph.grein@eurocopter.com schrieb:
> I guess you've confused GNAT beyond repair.
> 
> The problem is your function Set_A (the rest is OK). Ada 2005 no
> longer has return-by-reference functions, so you cannot return an
> object of type New_A_Type.


Uhm, I think that, still, you can call functions
that will assign the (already existing) return
objcect. Which was, IIUC, the point of coining the
word "constructor function".

  X: constant New_A_T := Set_A;

http://www.adacore.com/2007/05/28/gem-3/