Re: Tagged Rep Spec

[jsanchor@cs5.dasd.honeywell.com]

> Could you use
>   type Inner_Record is ... -- not tagged
>   for Inner_Record use ...
>  type Interrupt_Record_Type is new ... with record
>    Contents : Inner_Record;
> end record;

I could use a non tagged type, but I thought a nontagged type were
nonextending. I was thinking that maybe my initial record could be
represented as a rep speced records.  The ones that are constant I
represent and then other projects could add their project specific
contents above the ones that are given.



>   Usually you need to give rep specs because you are dealing with
> external hardward or software that has its own ideas.  Usually such
> hardware or software has no idea what a tag might mean, so you really
> would rather communicate with it via Inner_Record than via a tagged
> record.  If you really need the tag, perhaps you should use Streams
> instead.
>


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