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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Ada and string literals
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:03:38 +0200
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On 13-02-01 02:54 , Shark8 wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:52:58 AM UTC-6, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>
>>    -- The following does NOT work:
>>    ..
>>    is
>>       A, B : String;
>>    begin
>>       if Alpha then A := "James"; else A := "John"  ; end if;
>>       if Beta  then B := "Jill";  else B := "Jennie"; end if;
>>       Foo (A, B);
>>    ..
> 
> But it's unneeded in Ada 2012 -- use the following:
> Foo(
>   Param_1 => (if alpha then "James" else "John"),
>   Param_2 => (if beta then "Jill" else "Jennie")
> );

I guess you didn't read to the end of my post before replying.

Using Ada 2012 conditional expressions in the actual parameters works in
this simple example, but become cumbersome (e.g. because of duplicated
conditions and nested conditions) in more complex cases.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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