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4.1.3 Selected Components

Selected_components are used to denote components (including discriminants), entries, entry families, and protected subprograms; they are also used as expanded names as described below.

Syntax

   
       selected_component ::= prefix . selector_name

       selector_name ::= identifier | character_literal | operator_symbol

Name Resolution Rules

A selected_component is called an expanded name if, according to the visibility rules, at least one possible interpretation of its prefix denotes a package or an enclosing named construct (directly, not through a subprogram_renaming_declaration or generic_renaming_declaration).

A selected_component that is not an expanded name shall resolve to denote one of the following:

• A component (including a discriminant):

The prefix shall resolve to denote an object or value of some non-array composite type (after any implicit dereference). The selector_name shall resolve to denote a discriminant_specification of the type, or, unless the type is a protected type, a component_declaration of the type. The selected_component denotes the corresponding component of the object or value.

• A single entry, an entry family, or a protected subprogram:

The prefix shall resolve to denote an object or value of some task or protected type (after any implicit dereference). The selector_name shall resolve to denote an entry_declaration or subprogram_declaration occurring (implicitly or explicitly) within the visible part of that type. The selected_component denotes the corresponding entry, entry family, or protected subprogram.

An expanded name shall resolve to denote a declaration that occurs immediately within a named declarative region, as follows:

• The prefix shall resolve to denote either a package (including the current instance of a generic package, or a rename of a package), or an enclosing named construct.

• The selector_name shall resolve to denote a declaration that occurs immediately within the declarative region of the package or enclosing construct (the declaration shall be visible at the place of the expanded name -- see 8.3). The expanded name denotes that declaration.

• If the prefix does not denote a package, then it shall be a direct_name or an expanded name, and it shall resolve to denote a program unit (other than a package), the current instance of a type, a block_statement, a loop_statement, or an accept_statement (in the case of an accept_statement or entry_body, no family index is allowed); the expanded name shall occur within the declarative region of this construct. Further, if this construct is a callable construct and the prefix denotes more than one such enclosing callable construct, then the expanded name is ambiguous, independently of the selector_name.

Dynamic Semantics

The evaluation of a selected_component includes the evaluation of the prefix.

For a selected_component that denotes a component of a variant, a check is made that the values of the discriminants are such that the value or object denoted by the prefix has this component. The exception Constraint_Error is raised if this check fails.

Examples

Examples of selected components:

    
         Tomorrow.Month     --  a record component                   (see 3.8)
         Next_Car.Owner     --  a record component                   (see 3.10.1)
         Next_Car.Owner.Age --  a record component                   (see 3.10.1)
                            --  the previous two lines involve implicit dereferences
         Writer.Unit        --  a record component (a discriminant)  (see 3.8.1)
         Min_Cell(H).Value  --  a record component of the result     (see 6.1)
                            --  of the function call Min_Cell(H)
         Control.Seize      --  an entry of a protected object       (see 9.4)
         Pool(K).Write      --  an entry of the task Pool(K)         (see 9.4)

Examples of expanded names:

    
         Key_Manager."<"      --  an operator of the visible part of a package (see 7.3.1)
         Dot_Product.Sum      --  a variable declared in a function body    (see 6.1)
         Buffer.Pool          --  a variable declared in a protected unit   (see 9.11)
         Buffer.Read          --  an entry of a protected unit              (see 9.11)
         Swap.Temp            --  a variable declared in a block statement  (see 5.6)
         Standard.Boolean     --  the name of a predefined type             (see A.1)

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