Re: Why constant components are not permitted ?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:12:54 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:14:34 -0800 (PST), David Sauvage wrote:
>
>> In my case I find it useful to declare my Object Tag component as a
>> constant, but it is not permitted, I would be interested to learn
>> why ?
>
> Language irregularity. There are other things which work for components
> differently, e.g. no anonymous arrays.
You could argue it's an irregularity, if this was useful to anything.  
Another one could argue Ada did not blindly apply any schema to anything.  
A record is not a general purpose declaration scope; there are mainly  
packages and generic packages for that purpose.


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