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From: DrPi <314@drpi.fr>
Subject: Re: renames usage
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 14:31:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fedd2cd$0$21616$426a74cc@news.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f5ff494-837e-446f-a621-ff1dd8414ea0n@googlegroups.com>

Le 31/12/2020 à 13:10, John Perry a écrit :
> No. Assignment copies the object, and changes to the copy don't affect the original, while renaming obtains a reference to the object. This program will illustrate it:
> 
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> 
> procedure Test_Renames is
> 
>     S: String := "hello world";
>     T: String := S;
>     U: String renames S;
> 
> begin
> 
>     Put_Line(S);
> 
>     T(T'First) := 'y';
>     Put_Line(S); -- still "hello world"
> 
>     U(U'First) := 'y';
>     Put_Line(S); -- "yello world"
> 
> end Test_Renames;
> 

Understood. Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-31 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-31 11:48 renames usage DrPi
2020-12-31 12:10 ` John Perry
2020-12-31 13:31   ` DrPi [this message]
2020-12-31 12:33 ` Gautier write-only address
2020-12-31 14:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-12-31 15:55   ` DrPi
2020-12-31 18:48     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-01 12:39       ` DrPi
2021-01-01 13:20         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-02 11:53           ` DrPi
2021-01-01 14:46         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-02 11:55           ` DrPi
2021-01-03  3:19           ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-03 10:05             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-01-06  2:49               ` Randy Brukardt
2021-01-02 16:00         ` G.B.
2021-01-02 17:22           ` Simon Wright
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