From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Accessing the underlying rep for enumerated types?
Date: 12 Oct 2004 20:20:59 -0400
Date: 2004-10-12T20:20:59-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.296.1097626872.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MrNoSpam-EC7BEF.08320213102004@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au> writes:
> An enumeration type can have a representation clause applied to it
> allowing you to specify a underlying integer representation for
> each value.
>
> 'Pos tells you the position within the enumeration, not it's
> underlying value. Is there any way to get access to this value
> other than using Unchecked_Conversion?
No.
This is (unfortunately) a FAQ.
What's wrong with Unchecked_Conversion?
And why do you want to expose the underlying representation?
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-- Stephe
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2004-10-12 22:32 Accessing the underlying rep for enumerated types? Dale Stanbrough
2004-10-13 0:20 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
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2004-10-13 7:23 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-13 12:29 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-13 1:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-13 6:51 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-10-13 21:49 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-14 1:25 ` Jeffrey Carter
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