From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5117b1b6391a0e06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer) References: <4x_zc.40702$G%.32360@tornado.fastwebnet.it> In-Reply-To: <4x_zc.40702$G%.32360@tornado.fastwebnet.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:58:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.16.231 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1087408731 63.184.16.231 (Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:58:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:58:51 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1581 Date: 2004-06-16T17:58:51+00:00 List-Id: Abby wrote: > Thanx for your answer. Sorry if I don't show you well what my problem > is, I try again ;) : I have the structure as in my first post and I > can't change it, I mean, "someone" wrote that type and I must use it > so i need to declare a variable of that "monstrous" type and I can't > change that type in anyway. DO you know some way to declare and use > it without any constraint error? If you can't change any of the declarations, then you're stuck. There is no way to declare an object of Unc_Array_Type on most systems. These type declarations are garbage. By the way, the name is "Ada", named after a woman. -- Jeff Carter "Go and boil your bottoms." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 01