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From: dlehman@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Danford Lehman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: TEXT_IO anomality
Summary: IMPLICIT ARRAY CONVERSION--NOT FOR COMPONENTS (5.2.1(5)
Message-ID: <687@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 90 01:20:18 GMT
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   Norm Cohen has explained why the exception is raised by the assignment
of the record aggregate.  The Ada standard makes the point explicit in
paragraph 5.2.1(5):

        The implicit subtype conversion described [in 5.2.1(1..4)] for
        assignment to an array variable is performed only for the value
        of the right-hand side expression as a whole; it is not performed
        for subcomponents that are array values.


Dan Lehman      Institute for Defense Analyses     Alexandria VA  USA
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