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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate (..., Parameters => ...);
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:37:58 -0600
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"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
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> It appears the ASIS standard document is not freely available, so it's
> hard to be sure.

That's right. I can't give you a copy of the Standard unless you're actively 
involved in working on it. We did make the "Committee Draft" version 
available through the SIGAda working group - but it has lots of errors that 
are being corrected.

In any case, I went and read the standard for 
Asis.Ada_Environments.Associate, and I don't see any description at all of 
what the parameters mean. However, the description of type Context gives a 
bit more idea of what is meant. But there is nothing in the standard about 
the contents of these parameters. Moreover, there is this sentence: "The 
concrete mechanism of this association is implementation-specific." You're 
welcome to guess at exactly what this means (there is a lot of such text in 
the Asis standard!)

Anyway, I would expect the actual values used for Name and Parameters in 
Associate to be completely defined by the implementation.

                              Randy.