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From: AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
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Subject: Re: Code Statement
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 03:20:45 -0700 (PDT)
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On 19 Mai, 11:56, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> On May 19, 7:07=A0am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure whathttp://www.adaic.com/standards/05rm/html/RM-13-8.html
> > (2) means; does it give you a licence to use any type you lke? seems
> > unlikely.
>
> Sorry, I meant (4): "The qualified_expression is expected to be of any
> type."

This is a Name Resolution Rule used for overload resolution. As far as
overloading is concernded, any type can do.

> Compare with (5): "The qualified_expression shall be of a type
> declared in package System.Machine_Code."

This is a Legality Rule and applied only after overload resolution. So
this is where code becomes illegal when other types are used.