From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Enumeration literal visibility and use type
Date: 1998/05/26
Date: 1998-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ken2q$660@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6kelnr$ief$1@polo.advicom.net
David C. Hoos, Sr. (david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com) wrote:
: John McCabe wrote in message <6kejt5$75u@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>...
: John is correct. The only way I've found to make the literals visible
: (without
: a context clause "use doodah;") is in the units requiring visibility is to
: declare:
: state_0 : constant doodah.state_value_type := doodah.state_0;
: .
: .
: .
: state_etc : constant doodah.state_value_type := doodah.state_etc;
: Anyone have a better way?
Dunno about "better", but I can do "different"... ;-)
function state_0 return doodah.state_value_type renames doodah.state_0;
-- etc. etc.
(but of course I'd use Capitalised_Identifiers :-)
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-26 0:00 Enumeration literal visibility and use type William Bralick
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-27 0:00 ` William Bralick
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-26 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Roger Racine
[not found] <6kej65$dnh$1@hermes.seas.smu.edu| <6kejt5$75u@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>
1998-05-26 0:00 ` William Bralick
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-05-27 0:00 ` William Bralick
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Thomas Hood
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
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