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From: Gautier write-only address <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question on variant/discriminated records
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 04:46:45 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba97a48d-6e75-49e8-8a62-a5dea3c6189cn@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dd44b3c-b3de-4943-ac70-0e25eaf279efn@googlegroups.com>

On Thursday, December 31, 2020 at 1:24:25 PM UTC+1, reinert wrote:
> Here must be a hole in my understanding. I thought that the discriminant must be known 
> before V.Y := 1.0; and hence there should be no confusion? 

Imagine you have a function Evaluate (r : rec1_Type) return Float.
Except in trivial cases like
  if r.option1 = b then result := result + r.y; end if;
the compiler cannot guess the value of the discriminant.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-31 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-31 10:38 Question on variant/discriminated records reinert
2020-12-31 10:52 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-12-31 12:24   ` reinert
2020-12-31 12:46     ` Gautier write-only address [this message]
2020-12-31 12:57       ` reinert
2020-12-31 13:29       ` DrPi
2020-12-31 16:06         ` Gautier write-only address
2020-12-31 15:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-01-01  9:19   ` reinert
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