Re: 'for cursor in container.first loop' bug?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
news:lyfvggibpz.fsf@pushface.org...
> While scratching my head over 5.5.2 Generalized Loop Iteration, I looked
> at A.18.32 Example of Container Use[1] and tried compiling with GNAT GPL
> 2014 and GCC 4.9.0. The full example compiled fine, but when I attempted
> the substitution in (29) this happened:

Yes, this is known. Had you used the bleeding edge RM 
(http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/ada2x.html) you would have noticed that 
this example is one of many corrections to Ada 2012. (There is enough that 
WG 9 has ordered us to produce a Corrigendum of fixes by the end of next 
year.)

The story here is simply that your editor (that would me) had for some 
reason gotten the wrong notion of how generalized references worked. He then 
carefully used this wrong notion in RM examples and also in some examples 
that he gave to John Barnes for use in the Rationale. Both the RM and the 
Rationale required correction.

Specifically:

...
>    65.          for C in G (Next).Iterate loop
>    66.             declare
>    67.                E : Edge renames G (Next)(C).all;
No .all here; this should be:
              E : Edge renames G (Next)(C);

and the rest of the errors are a cascade.

There's an extra .all in A.18.32(31/4) as well.

Precisely why I was convinced that we needed that .all will have to remain a 
mystery. The rules are clear enough. (Most likely, some of the examples I 
posted here on cla probably had this misconception as well.)

                                Randy.