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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic Variant Record Creation
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Robert A Duff expounded in news:wccr5nj247r.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com:

>     X : Token_Unit (Token => T);
> 
> to default-initialize stuff.
> 
> But I agree it's not worth the trouble.
> 
> By the way, why do we call the kind/type of token "Token",
> and the whole token is "Token_Unit" or some such?  I realize that's
> what the compiler textbooks often do, but I'd prefer the enumeration
> be called Token_Kind, and the record (containing the kind as well as
> the identifier string or whatever) be called something else, like
> Token. 
> 
> - Bob

Actually, that is a good point. Before I left the Ada faith a few
years ago, I started doing that (using *_Kind).  Its not too late
for me to make that change, so it might get done tonight. ;-)

Warren