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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Why constant components are not permitted ?
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Just make the component a discriminant, then it's constant (as Georg
has proposed).

type Rec (Discriminant: Some_Discrete_Type) is record
  ...  -- variable components
end record;