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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>
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Carroll, Andrew wrote:
> 
>    myrec: dbrecord;
>    ...
>    type dbrecord is range 0..sum_of_sizes_of_attributes;

>    X := dbrecord(33..70);  --what type is x here?

Dbrecord is a type, not an object, so I presume you meant Myrec here. 
But Dbrecord is an integer type, so Myrec (33 .. 70) is meaningless. It 
will be hard for you to get a meaningful answer until we can understand 
what you're asking.

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Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
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