From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: discriminants and tagged types
Date: 1998/09/02
Date: 1998-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Eynx4w.CsD.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
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Bob Fletcher (bob@radge.globalnet.co.uk) wrote:
: Is there a restriction on using descriminants in tagged types in Ada 95?
One restriction is that you cannot give defaults for the
discriminants, so their value needs to be specified when an
object is created. Also, when you extend a tagged type, you
must inherit the discriminants, or completely replace them with
a new set.
: ... I
: know it can't be done in the GNAT compiler, it spits out an error, but my
: girlfriend swears blind that the CASE tool they are using on the project
: she's working on has produced a tagged type with a discriminant. I warned
: her that I'm pretty sure this won't work, but maybe it's a compiler issue,
: although I can't imagine it would be.
: Bob Fletcher
: <A HREF="mailto:bob@radge.globalnet.co.uk"></A>
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-Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA
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