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Subject: Re: Generic access type convention and aliasing
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 07:55:45 +0200
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Le Mon, 06 May 2013 02:20:03 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57)  =

<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a =C3=A9crit:
>
> (*) A variable which I would enjoy to force to be a constant after  =

> record initialization, but I can't; another story.

I also wished I could specify it must be a limited access type. Out of  =

curiosity, I searched the web on this topic, and found this was already =
 =

proposed. See this AI:

http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai05s/ai05-0142-2.txt?rev=3D1=
.3

The status is =E2=80=9CWork item=E2=80=9D.

Although just a proposal, I wanted to try (even before I've seen this AI=
)  =

in case GNAT may implement this proposal, but it seems to not (it just  =

complains =E2=80=9Csubtype indication expected=E2=80=9D when it sees =E2=
=80=9Climited=E2=80=9D).


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