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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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On 10/11/2014 05:38 PM, compguy45@gmail.com wrote:
>  myFunction(Integer'Value(a(1)));
> 
> gives compiler error 
> 
> expected type "Standard.String"
> found type "Standard.Integer"
>  compilation error

That at least confirms that A (1) is of type Integer. Integer'Value obviously
won't work here since it takes a String, as the error msg indicates. I was
interested in the error msg for the case that looks correct, using Integer'Image.

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