Re: casecrash: language lawyers: C'mon!

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>]

Without digging out my long-buried LRM, I seem to recall that Ada is NOT, I
say again NOT, case-sensitive.

That being the case,

    H : Header;

hides the enumeration literal H where you defined record_type, and your
"when H =>" clause tried to resolve against the instance of Header, which is
obviously bogus.

You MIGHT try changing that to

    when record_type'(H) =>

and see what happens.  I would not bet on it working.

Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in message
news:9j1cpn$bis$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de...
>                       with ada.text_io;use ada.text_io;
> procedure casecrash is
>  type record_type is (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,unknown);
>  type header is record
>     id_letter : record_type := unknown;
>  end record;
>  H : Header;
> begin
>  case h.id_letter is
>   when A => put("a");
>   when H => put("h"); -- H conflict, name clash?
>                       -- no context resolution?
>   when others => put("*");
>  end case;
> end casecrash;--20010717ph+frehrmann
>
> LRM:8.3(26), illegal homograph of H
> LRM:8.6(28)
>
> Why on earth should I accept this rule in this case?
> Topic for Ada2005?
>
>
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