From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,12af967e1e23da61 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Attribute Definitions and other questions References: <000201c53293$f0e4b970$0401a8c0@thinkpad> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:40:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.51.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1113331238 4.240.51.153 (Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:40:38 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:40:38 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10400 Date: 2005-04-12T18:40:38+00:00 List-Id: Duncan Sands wrote: >>Let's say I have a tagged type T. >> >>type T is tagged ... >> >>end T; >> >>Later I declared some variables of type T. >>var1: T; >>var2: T; >> >>what attribute distinguishes the different "instances" of T (var1 and var2)? > > T'Address T is a type. 'Address is meaningless for it. Var1 and Var2 are distinguished by having different names, but you can also look at 'Tag (for tagged types only). -- Jeff Carter "Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth." Monty Python's Meaning of Life 61