Re: Mutating elements of constant list using a container element iterator

[martinbbjerregaard@gmail.com]

Egil H H writes:
> Gnat Pro 7.3.1 reports "left hand side of assignment must be a variable" here.

That is strange. I'm using GNAT GPL 2015 (20150428-49), so I'm going to assume that it is a bug then.

Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> The trick is to assign a new value to the whole object, and not just a
> component of it:
> 
>    for Item of V2 loop
>       Item := (Value => 0);
>    end loop;
> 
> I'm not sure exactly why there is a difference.

for Item of V1 loop
   Item := (Value => 0); -- still no error
end loop;

This still gives no error, even though V1 is declared as constant.