Re: Ada can't initialize (aggregate) array of length 1?

[leschkes@ferret.cig.mot.com (Scott Leschke)]

dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>"I use GNAT v 2.0 on OS/2"

>really? that's surprising, because GNAT goes out of its way to give
>a clear error message here:

>     1. procedure k is
>     2.     type stone is array (1..2) of character;
>     3.     shapes: constant array (1..1) of stone := ("[]");
>                                                       |
>        >>> positional aggregate cannot have one component

>     4. begin
>     5.    null;
>     6. end;

>and that's exactly right, the fix is to make the aggregate named

>   (1 => "[]")

I was always under the understanding that positional notation was
ambiguous for the length 0 and 1 cases.  If this is so, how can
GNAT display a non-mabiguous messsage?  Is ambiguous too strong a
statement here ?  Maybe that's where I'm confused ?

Scott Leschke
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Scott Leschke