Re: Question about enumeration types

[Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> Reinert Korsnes <Reinert.Korsnes@ffi.no> wrote in message news:<3B5D5EA5.F20EC9D7@ffi.no>...

>> I find it boring that extending the range of possible values of
>> an enumeration type may easily cause conflicts with variable names,

> Let me assume you mean tedious here instead of boring.

> Well yes, it is part of the Ada design to favor the reader over the
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
> writer of code. Under certain circumstances, the compiler could use
> type information to disambiguate:

>    type r is (a,b,c);
>    c : integer;
[snipp]

I have to thank Robert Dewar for spending his time for giving
a useful elaborated lecture on this subject, which BTW is the answer
for my casecrash problem some days ago. Convincing.
My thanks to Tucker Taft, too.

comp.lang.ada seems to be a precious source, indeed. (sometimes...)

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