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: 103376,1540032852ee6d61 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why does this work? (overloads) References: <1170823163.681564.186260@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1170876083.353327.155370@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1170876083.353327.155370@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1170895790 12.201.97.213 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:49:50 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:49:50 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:49:50 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9116 Date: 2007-02-08T00:49:50+00:00 List-Id: 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 34