Re: Why no schema alias?

On 13 Aug 2012 at 10:31, Jay Michael wrote:

>           type LSTRING = STRING ;
> 
> t3.pas:8: warning: missing string capacity -- assuming 255
> 
>      Is there some other syntax to creating an alias of a schema type?
> 
>      On a related note, when I tried
> 
>           type LSTRING( Capacity : INTEGER ) = STRING( Capacity ) ; I
> got
>           t3.pas:9: error: duplicate field `Capacity'
> 
> on the attempted type declaration, and again each time I used the
> new type name.
>      I tried "STRING( LSTRING.Capacity )" and "STRING( .Capacity )". No
> improvement.
> 
>           type LSTRING( N : INTEGER ) = STRING( N ) ;
> 
> compiled, and worked almost as well as a true alias.  It wouldn't 
> let me pass a string literal as the actual argument to a 
> "const x : LSTRING" parameter.

Const Len = 1024;
Type LString = String (Len);

Best regards, The Chief
--------
Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
web:  http://www.greatchief.plus.com/


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