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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Unconstrained Arrays
Date: 20 Mar 2009 10:46:15 +0100
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sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com> writes:

> There is a deep language-lawyerly reason (which I don't understand)
> why an array like your My_Array can't be aliased (at any rate in
> Ada95); you have to use the initialize-with-aggregate approach.
> Perhaps that's what leads to the initialize-with-aggregate style.

Why doesn't my compiler complain about it then?

And can you please quote the explanation, so the rest of us can
attempt to understand it.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
�When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while
 the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under
 similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more
 interested in Ada!�                                     -- Robert Dewar