From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!newsfeed.xs3.de!io.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bad cursor, good cursor Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:26:25 -0500 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rrsoftware.com X-Trace: franka.jacob-sparre.dk 1490653585 14952 24.196.82.226 (27 Mar 2017 22:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:26:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:46494 Date: 2017-03-27T17:26:25-05:00 List-Id: "Marius Amado-Alves" wrote in message news:db7bb891-5640-40bb-9c1d-d0970cb6555e@googlegroups.com... > Thanks. Thing_Maps is the package (instance of Ordered_Maps), Thing a > container (Map). Similarly for Subthing. > > Dont know about "overlapping", but there is a nesting of sorts as elements > of Thing are themselves Maps. > > I seem to remember having problems in the past with nested containers i.e. > containers of containers... > The Ada idioms for this are a bit convoluted... but should work, no? Should work, yes. :-) Your original problem looks like a bug in the containers implementation to me, as it doesn't make any sense (as you say, it should either be null or a good cursor, and nothing has happened that should be able to change it). Randy.