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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: storage error: stack overflow
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:16:01 -0700
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On 08/18/2015 07:02 AM, hreba wrote:
> 
> Huh? As much as I know you cannot declare variables of a type with unknown
> storage requirements at compile time, such as class-wide types and arrays with
> unknown range.

These are "indefinite types". You can declare an object of an indefinite type as
long as you supply an initialization expression:

S : String := "Hello";

V : T'Class := Some_Function;

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Blessed are they who convert their neighbors'
oxen, for they shall inhibit their girth."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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