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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Why does this work? (overloads)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:49:50 GMT
Date: 2007-02-08T00:49:50+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Osuyh.261469$aJ.253357@attbi_s21> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170876083.353327.155370@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>

Adam Beneschan wrote:
> 
> No, the compiler is right.  The problem here is that the syntax of Ada
> says that an index can be applied to a "name", but a qualified
> expression is not a "name".  I griped about this in AI05-0003.  See
> http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AI05s/AI05-0003-1.TXT?
> rev=1.1

OK. Thanks for the clarification. An intermediate value is needed, then, 
to call the version that returns an array.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there."
Blazing Saddles
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07  4:39 Why does this work? (overloads) Jerry
2007-02-07  6:45 ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-02-07  7:07   ` Jerry
2007-02-07  7:26     ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-02-07 20:43       ` Jerry
2007-02-07 19:09   ` AW: " Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-07 21:13     ` Jerry
2007-02-07 21:33       ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-02-07 21:36       ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-07 19:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-07 19:21   ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-07 19:25     ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-08  0:51       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-07 23:12     ` Robert A Duff
2007-02-08  0:49     ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2007-02-07 20:53   ` Jerry
2007-02-08  0:53     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-08 10:40       ` Jerry
2007-02-08 11:34         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-08 12:05         ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-02-08 18:52         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-09  0:56         ` Jerry
2007-02-09  1:27         ` tmoran
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