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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: put of access type
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:41:14 -0400
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> The same goes for access types for unconstrained arrays; they just
> don't make sense if you don't know about the dope.

Well, you have to know that unconstrained arrays have bounds.
That's not specific to access types -- the same is true
for parameters and so forth.  Do you need to know
how the bounds are stored for a parameter of type String
in order to understand such parameters?

- Bob