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Subject: Re: Default values
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 12:53:41 +0100
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On 12/25/2016 10:23 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
>
> is the line
>
>          Latest_Data : Update := (others => <>);
>
> legal? If so, what does it mean? (I've looked at the ARM for Record
> Aggregates, 4.3.1, and Record Types. 3.8, and am no wiser).

Yes, it's legal. It means the same thing as

Latest_Data : Update;

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Jeff Carter
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people stampeded, and cattle raped."
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