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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f298e2224380e530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-07 09:59:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Disriminant question References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1047059948 12.234.13.56 (Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:59:08 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:59:08 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:59:08 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35042 Date: 2003-03-07T17:59:08+00:00 List-Id: > Put_Line ("disk1'Size =" & Natural'Image (disk1'Size)); The original question was whether you could change the discriminant. Replacing all occurrences of "'Size" with ".some_disc" in program t results in: disk1.some_disc = 1 disk3.some_disc = 3 disk.some_disc = 1 disk.some_disc = 3 d.some_disc = 1 d.some_disc = 2 d.some_disc = 3 d.some_disc = 4 d.some_disc = 5 e.some_disc = 1 e.some_disc = 2 e.some_disc = 3 e.some_disc = 4 e.some_disc = 5 So the discriminant does change correctly. If you want to change the 'Size of a record, that's a different question.