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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: "&" for array versus "&" for Strings
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: October 08, 2002 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: "&" for array versus "&" for Strings


<snip>
> 
> Gnat 3.16w produces an error for this:
> 
> preben.adb:15:17: expected type "Name_Array" defined at line 4
> preben.adb:15:17: found a string type
> 
> With qualification, it works.
With gnat-3.14p and qualification it still fails, so it would appear that this
is a "bug" fixed in 3.16w.  Clearly, from a language standpoint, it is
necessary to disambiguate the & operator in the call to Print_Names, and
qualification of its operands does just that.
<snip>