Re: Concatenation and Characters

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fraser Wilson" <newsfraser@blancolioni.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters


<snip>
> And speaking of, I've occasionally had the need to return a zero
> length array from a function, but there doesn't seem to be a literal
> for this case.  So my code looks like this:
> 
>     type Array_Type is array (Positive range <>) of ... ;
> 
>     ....
> 
>     declare
>        Empty : constant Array_Type (1 .. 0);
>     begin
>        return Empty;
>     end;
You can just write 
       return Array_Type (1 ..0);