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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: simple problem?
Date: 1996/05/10
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Date: 1996-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <Dr6tqL.217@bton.ac.uk>, John English <je@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
>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; ...

Sequential_IO allows unconstrained arrays.  Direct_IO does not.

Other posters are correct that you probably want to be using the
predefined Text_IO package, and certainly declaring your own thing
called Text_IO, different from the predefined version, is bad form.

- Bob