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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
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Subject: Re: Nonsense (was Re: How to do it in Ada ?)
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"Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com> wrote in message
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:
: I <up.yerz@nospam.com> wrote nonsense in message
: news:P0F47.357734$p33.7248200@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com...
: >
: >[snip]
: >
: > Alternatively, the declaration could be written this way:
: >
: >     X := new X_Array_Type (1 .. N) := (others => 0);
: >
:
: What a bunch of crap!  I can't belive I wrote that.  It must have been
: before my first cup of coffee this morning.  Or, I started writing that
line
: and then went away, and then came back and blew a brain fuse when I
resumed
: typing.  Maybe when I went away, it was to get the cup of coffee!
:
: What one *could* write (not that you'd want to, but it illustrates the
: language concept I was trying to highlight), is:
:
:     X : new X_Array_Type (1 .. N);
:
:     begin
:             X := (others => 0);

This still looks a little off... perhaps you meant something like

package X_Array is

   type Object is array (Positive range <>) of Integer;
   type Object_Access is access Object;
   function New_Object_Access return Object_Access;

end X_Array;

package body X_Array is

  function N return Positive is... (see other post)

   function New_Object_Access return Object_Access is
     X : Object_Access := new Object(1 .. N);
   begin
     X.all := (others => 0);
     return X;
   end New_Object_Access;

end X_Array;