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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: "&" for array versus "&" for Strings
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"Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net> writes:

> In <slrnaq5ehk.5c6.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol wrote:
> >    Print_Names ("Ada   " & "Babbel");

> AFAIK, "Ada   " & "Babbel"  is type String(1..12) not Name_Array(1..2).

The expression "Ada   " & "Babbel" could be of various types, depending
on context.  You can't say it "is" of type String all by itself.
In the context of Print_Names ("Ada   " & "Babbel");,
the type is determined (in part) by the type of the formal parameter.

- Bob