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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Bitmanipulation in Ada
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:56:07 +0000 (UTC)
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(see below) wrote:
> On 18/8/04 9:37 pm, in article
> Xns9549E5E9CFFB1BerndSpechgmxcom@151.189.20.10, "Bernd Specht"
> <Bernd.Specht@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> 3. When I want treat a value both as an integer and as a boolean
>> array, how can i do this? In pascal I would use a tagless record like
>>
>> TYPE ov is record
>> case boolean of
>>   true : i : integer;
>>   false  : byte_array;
>> end;
>> end;
>>
>> Such overlay structures are not valid with Ada, so what do instead?
>
> Such usages are not valid in (ISO Standard) Pascal either,
> but you don't let that stop you. 8-)

Where does the standard deem this "not valid" in Ada?