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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Indefinite_Holders: bug or misunderstanding?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:31:10 -0600
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"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:bf840108-2cdb-457d-928e-9db658d4d8d2@googlegroups.com...
> Hm, the error-message is straightforward: the compiler is expecting the 
> full-definition of Str to have a discriminant.
>
> HOWEVER, I seem to remember* the partial-view ("type Str (<>) is private") 
> as indicating only that the type is unconstrained, which the array 
> actually is -- so if that's the proper interpretation then this is a 
> compiler bug.
>
>
> * I could be misremembering; I don't think that the generic-parameter 
> "Type Param(<>) is private"
>
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> PS -- Looks like a compiler error.

I agree, looks like a compiler bug to me. Any non-limited type should work 
in a holder.

                           Randy.