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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Using ARRAYS for grade reporting?
Date: 1998/04/19
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GOTHIC SIN said

<<Why don't  you use a RECORD?

Type Grade_report_record is RECORD
    Names : string;
    grades : character; -- or you can use the numeric grade natural
                                      -- or float.
end record;

goth
>>


In order to avoid the "blind-leading-the-blind" phenomenon which can be
very confusing, I strongly suggest that unless you are a real expert in
Ada (and perhaps even then -- I always do) *compile* your code before
posting it to make sure that it does not have obvious errors.

The above code is of course wrong, you cannot use the type String here. There
are many possible corrections (constrain the string, use Unbounded_String,
use a discriminant ...) depending on the exact need.