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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT Error message
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:38:56 GMT
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In article <3A3F854A.4AAC16EB@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> Here is the "AdaMagic" error message, interspersed in the
listing:
>
>   ...
>    13       This (Index) := Integer (Index - This'First);
-- Line 13
>                                             *
> *****Error: LRM:8.4(1) Binary operator "-" between Index_Type
and Index_Type
> *****        not directly visible, use clause or conversion
might be needed
>    14     end loop;
>   ...
>
> Not clearly better or worse, in my view, than the GNAT error
message.

Hmmm! would you clearly distinguish if more than one Index_Type
was in scope -- we find the location references to the
declaration very useful in GNAT.


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