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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: strings and multidimensional arrays
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>      type Unconstrained_Record (D : Disc := One) is record

Isn't this the key line here? The default ("One") allows you to change it
late (as often
as you like). If you didn't have this, then you would have to provide a
value at
declaration and it would be 'fixed' for the life of the object.