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Date: 13 Aug 93 12:34:40 GMT
From: sarge!sarge!pauld@uunet.uu.net  (Paul Durbin)
Subject: Re: Unconstrained arrays
Message-ID: <pauld.745245280@sarge>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

kanderso@mabillon.ICS.UCI.EDU (Kenneth Anderson) writes:

>Hello,

>  I have declared the following type (DynamicString is an imported type)

>        type Str_Array is array (Natural range <>) of DynamicString;

>Later when I try to declare objects of this type, the compiler likes this


>   Viewers : str_array(1 .. 6) := (Create("Airspeed_Guage"),
>                                   Create("Altimeter_Guage"),
>                                   Create("Compass_Guage"),
>                                   Create("Horizon_Guage"),
>                                   Create("ROC_Guage"),
>                                   Create("Turn_Guage"));

>but it does not like this

>   Viewers : str_array(1 .. 1) := (Create("text_artist"));

>Here is the error message generated by the SunAda 1.1 compiler


>--### A:error: RM 8.3: no visible identifier is of type str_array


>If I change the above declaration to

>   Viewers : str_array(1 .. 2) := (Create("text_artist"),
>                                   Create("ignore"));

>The compiler is happy again.

>  Can someone help me out on this?  Why can't I declare AND initialize
>an array of only one element?

>Any help would be appreciated,

>Thanks in advance,

>Ken Anderson

See LRM 4.3(4).
  "Aggregates containing a single component association must always be given
   in named notation."

ywbm,
paul durbin