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From: Fraser Wilson <newsfraser@blancolioni.org>
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Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> True.  In fact, what would you like as the default initial value of
> this:
> 
>     X: Integer range 1..0;

And speaking of, I've occasionally had the need to return a zero
length array from a function, but there doesn't seem to be a literal
for this case.  So my code looks like this:

    type Array_Type is array (Positive range <>) of ... ;

    ....

    declare
       Empty : constant Array_Type (1 .. 0);
    begin
       return Empty;
    end;

Is this the only way?  I feel dense.

Fraser.