From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Ambiguous expressions - Help!
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:34:35 -0400
Date: 2013-09-24T16:34:35-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccr4ce2c2s.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 052de5da-75dc-486b-83e9-4f717d8e0ab7@googlegroups.com
Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@aol.com> writes:
> A string literal can actually be converted to any array of an
> enumeration type, if the enumeration type has at least one character
> literal as one of its literals. The classic example is:
>
> type Roman_Digit is ('I', 'V', 'X', 'L', 'C', 'D', 'M');
> type Roman_Numeral is array (Natural range <>) of Roman_Digit;
> R : Roman_Numeral := "MMXIII";
Right, and it's interesting that Roman_Digit'Size = 3 bits,
and the representation of 'I' is 0, 'V' is 1, ..., 'M' is 6.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 17:38 Ambiguous expressions - Help! Mike H
2013-09-24 18:15 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-09-24 18:43 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-24 20:34 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2013-09-24 18:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-09-24 21:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-25 7:14 ` Mike H
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