From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: simple problem?
Date: 1996/05/10
Date: 1996-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Dr6tqL.217@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SGI.3.91.960509195810.8410A-100000@sgi17.york.ac.uk
Frank Cheung (fktc101@york.ac.uk) wrote:
: When I try to compile the code below, I get the following error:
: "/usr/Ada/lib/sequential_i.A", line 67: error:
: generic formal private type element_type has unconstrained
: package TEXT_IO is new SEQUENTIAL_IO(STRING);
The problem is that String is an unconstrained type; without knowing how
big it is you can use Sequential_IO with it. Either use a constrained
string (e.g. String(1..80) or some such) or use Text_IO.Put_Line (i.e.
write a text file rather than a sequential file).
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1996-05-09 0:00 simple problem? Frank Cheung
1996-05-10 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` John English
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-10 0:00 ` John Herro
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