bagpiper@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Hunter) (09/21/89)
NOTE: I've only been programming in Ada for a few weeks...
And I was porting somebody else's code under VMS 5.1. The code had been
written under VMS 4.7 (of course using an earlier compiler). Some code of the
following form
Varname : Rectype := ((0..63) => false) ;
did not compile. The compiler said that a compnent selector had to be an
identifier. (sorry if this doesn't sound exact...I don't have the error
message close at hand) Well, after some false trials I found a constant that
had been defined as I needed.... [FYI this was the record PRV_TYPE in
starlet]. Could anybody tell me why this code compiled under 4.7 and didn't
compile under 5.1? Is that a bug in the new compiler or was it a bug in the
old compiler that got fixed? Thankx for any information!
Michael
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