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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Array slices and types
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:51:02 -0700 (PDT)
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Consider this:

   type Name is new String (1 .. 10);

   N : Name;

   Some_String : String := "abc";

How can I assign Some_String to the beginning slice (ie. to the first
three characters) of N?
Everything that I can think of (short of copying characters
individually) hits the type compatibility problem.

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