Re: Passing indefinite types

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 02/02/2013 02:07 PM, sbelmont700@gmail.com wrote:
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> Does anyone know of a slick way to pass several locally declared, indefinite
> types to a subprogram without resorting to the heap or Unchecked_Access?  An
> array of indefinite types is obviously not possible, an array of named access
> types is subject to accessibility problems, and wrapping the object in an
> 'accessor' (i.e. a null record with an access discriminant) turns right back
> into a problem of an array of indefinite types.  I can always declare a
> procedure that takes a bunch of individual parameters, but this seems like a
> kludge, and doesn't solve the problem if the number of items might vary.  It
> would be nice if there was some way to establish that a discriminated record
> is in fact a fixed size, or perhaps if an array of anonymous access types had
> the same accessibility as access discriminants.  But if anyone knows of a
> workaround, I would be interested in how it was done.

How about an indefinite container?

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Jeff Carter
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