using a type record's components:

using a type record's components:

[Mace Ayres]

1) In a package specification I have defined a record type ( i had errors in putting it in the body)
    Is that wrong, should the record info be both in package specification and body, like everything else?
2) record type is:

package structures is  -- specification
function sayhi(strin : in String) return String; 
function report_self(layer,numb: in Integer) return String;
procedure set_up;

type a_cell is
      record
         numb:  integer range 1..100;
         row:   integer range 1..10;
         col:   integer range 1..10;
         layer: integer range 1..10;
         valu:  integer range 0..9;
         fixd:  BOOLEAN           ;
      end record;
end structures;

-------
in package body -- separate file
..
..
with Ada.Integer_Text_IO;
use  Ada.Integer_Text_IO;

type cell   is new a_cell; 
type layer  is array(1..100) of cell;
layer_0   : layer;
      
begin
   ...
   for i of layer_1 loop
         ....
         New_Line;
         layer_0(i).numb := i;
         ..
         Put (layer_0.cell.numb, Width =>2);
         Put( " Cell x has numb value "); 
         --Put (layer_0(i).numb) ;
         New_Line;
   end loop;

I can't access the record type 'cell's component '.numb" which i tried to assign the value of the loop index i.

I do have a record cell function to report on itself, a stub. Do I a function like this to get to the record's numb value?

-- this is just a stub for now
FUNCTION report_self(layer,numb: in Integer) return STRING is
    --cell_status: STRING (1..100) ;
    begin
      --cell_status :=  "";
      New_Line(2);
      return ("Layer , row y column z has value of 0 and is not fixed");

end report_self;

Re: using a type record's components:

[Mace Ayres]

ignore layer_1 loop, I cut it out for brevity. That part, the loop, works OK