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From: reason67@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Help ... CONSTRAINT_ERROR
Date: 1999/11/30
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In article <m3emd83rg2.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>,
  Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> wrote:
> reason67@my-deja.com writes:
>
> | The code you posted would not compile:
> |       NUM : STRING := "hi there";

> It compiles under Ada95. Was this changed from Ada83 to Ada95 ?

I did not know it was legal in Ada95. I wonder why they changed that. A
String must still have a fixed length, so, like a constant, it must
derive the information from the default value. Thanks for the info.
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Jeffrey S. Blatt


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