Re: Question on arrays

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

On 16 Sep 2002 04:02:44 -0700, prashna wrote:
> Hi all,
> Pls explain what is wrong in this statement?
> 
> A_Integer(2) := (others => 2.0);
                             ^^^
                             Isn't this a real and you have integers in
                             the array. Does Tartan allow you to compile
                             this?

Anyway the problem with the statment above is that you are trying to put
the composite type from (other => 2) into the array at the second
element. Here you can only put a integer.

I assume you have a simple array like:

type A_Integer_Type is array (1..10) of Integer;
A_Integer : A_Integer_Type;

So please explain a bit more what you are trying to do here and also
read:

   http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ch06.htm
   and
   http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dale/ada/aln/6_arrays.html

An example program:

procedure t is

      type A_Integer_Type is array (1..10) of integer;
      A_Integer : A_Integer_Type;

begin
   -- Now I want to put the interger 5 in the array place 2 and 1 in all
   -- the others.
    A_Integer := (2 => 5, others => 1);
end t;



Preben