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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Vector (container) initialization: the schizophrenic ampersand
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Date: 2012-05-18T09:31:59-04:00
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Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com> writes:

> Adam is right: it is confusion with the predefined "&" for arrays, when the elements are arrays. (But the compiler error messages indicate undecision only between the two Vectors "&" functions.) So my new solution is
>
> function "+" (L : My_Vectors.Vector; R : My_Element_Type) 
>    renames My_Vectors."&"; 
>
> function "+" (L, R : My_Element_Type) 
>    renames My_Vectors."&"; 
>
> V : My_Vectors.Vector := Element1 + Element2 + Element3;
>
> A bit less inelegant.
>
> /* But more than parenthesis or T'(...) in my view. */

You mean more inelegant, or more elegant?

IMHO, a qualified expression is the elegant (and usual)
way to resolve ambiguities.  Renaming "&" to be "+" just
seems confusing, to me.

- Bob