Re: prefix of dereference must be a name?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Yannick Duchêne Hibou57 <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> On 30 juil, 09:09, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> wrote:
>> [...]
>> A.all := (C + B).all;
>>
>> What's the rationale for this?
>>
> About it, ARM 4.1 says:
> (2) name ::=
>      direct_name | explicit_dereference
>    | indexed_component | slice
>    | selected_component | attribute_reference
>    | type_conversion | function_call
>    | character_literal
>
> But you can see in the latter excerpt, that “ function_call ” appears,
> but not “ expression ”.

Looking in the annotated language reference manual, I find this in
4.1, about what could be allowed as the prefix for .all:

17.f
          Discussion: Actually, it would be reasonable to allow any
          primary in front of .all, since only the value is needed, but
          that would be a bit radical.

I guess that makes me a radical, which is nothing new :).

And yesterday's "radical" is today's "progressive". That note is from
the Ada 95 changes; time to move on!

But as you say, I want more than a primary, I want an expression. Hmm.
"primary" includes "qualified_expression". That would save me from
declaring Copy above. Although when things are class-wide the necessary
type qualifier can be quite long.

I still don't see the fundamental problem.

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