Re: Ada question (defining types)

[Ian Clifton <ian@melvin.dp.ox.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "Aaro" == Aaro Koskinen <aaro@iki.fi> writes:

    reinert@ola.npolar.no (Reinert Korsnes) writes:
    >> Is it possible to make the following more compact and relyable
    >> (less typo/error prone):
    >> Longs : constant array ( Long_I ) of Integer := ( 0, 5, 10, 15,
    >> 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50,
    >> 300,305,310,315,320,325,330,335,340,345,350,355);

    Aaro> Implement it using a function instead of an array.

Yes, I think this is the most natural way of doing it in Ada. 

If for some reason you really want the constant array, there's no
`implied do' construct in Ada's `array aggregate' array constructor as
there is in Fortran95 (I suspect this might be the feature Reinert is
missing). You could however initialize your constant array with an
array-valued generator function (which would in effect be an Ada-style
wrapper for such an `implied do').

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