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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.iad.highwinds-media.com!peer03.am1!peering.am1!npeersf04.am4!fx16.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: From: Mike H Reply-To: Mike Hopkins Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ambiguous expressions - Help! References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M (<88$$+zd077fNi5diVK8NqJs9yZ>) NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.104.138.185 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: 1380093832 83.104.138.185 (Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:23:52 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:23:52 UTC Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:14:27 +0100 X-Received-Bytes: 1560 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17282 Date: 2013-09-25T08:14:27+01:00 List-Id: One of the pleasant things about this particular corner of news net is that replies to queries can be expected to be helpful and informative. Many thanks, I now know a lot more about strings and arrays! In the mean time my simplistic solution has been to avoid overloading by changing the declaration with Foo1; package Foo2 is procedure Put_line (Item : in Foo1.Vector_type); procedure Put_line (Item : in string); ... etc. to with Foo1; package Foo2 is procedure Put_vector (Item : in Foo1.Vector_type); procedure Put_line (Item : in string); ... etc. -- The thing I like best about the Internet is that no one knows that, in reality, I am just another old dog! Mike