Re: Unconstrained array aggregation..sq. peg into round hole?

[dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)]

In article <JSA.96Mar19204126@organon.com>,
Jon S Anthony <jsa@organon.com> wrote:
>In article <4ihrvo$hs5@dfw.dfw.net> dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) writes:
>
>>[example code deleted]
>Table is a 2 dimensional array with float components.  The error line
>shows an attempt to only specify one index of the two required.  Two
>dimensional arrays do not have Pascal array of array semantics.  You
>have to write that if it is what you want.  Of course here, you can't
>quite do that because you can't have an indefinite type be a component
>of an array (the potential Real_Array part).  The typical trick is to
>use an array of pointers to unconstrained array type.
>
>see 3.6(10, 12, 13)
>

Yup.  Actually the solution was to create something like a
"Load_Vector_From_Table" function.  That worked out pretty well.  I
knew about the "ragged array" solution, but I was looking something
with a more C-like flavor to it.  All things considered, the call to
the function actually turned out to be more readable for the target
audience (most of whom are highly Ada-illiterate).

I thank everybody for their comments.  In the end, things were just as
I had expected, but I thought maybe, just maybe, there was something
about Ada 95 that I missed :-)

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