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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pondering what rationale behind record type
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 22:51:42 +0300
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Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On May 9, 10:47 am, Anh Vo <anhvofrc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some time I am wondering why record type has different syntax pattern
>> than the rest with respect to type ending text. That is it ends with
>> 'end record;' no matter what the identifier is. The rest of others end
>> with 'end identifier'. Below are examples regarding this subject.
>>
>> type Data is record
>>    X_Coord : Integer := 0;
>>    Y_Coord : Integer := 0;
>>     -- more components
>> end record;
>>
>> task type Event_Monitor is
>>     entry Start;
>>     entry Process (...)
>> end Event_Monitor;
> 
> Heh ... good question.  I have to say I get tripped up by this a lot;
> I type things like "type Some_Type is record ... end Some_Type;"
> fairly frequently, and sometimes I don't catch it before the compiler
> does.

I make that mistake often, too. I would vote for a change in the 
language to allow "end Some_Type" as an alternative to "end record".

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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