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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Jerry Coffin wrote:
>
> Speaking of strings, I'll digress for a moment: personally, I find it
a
> bit humorous when Ada advocates talk about things like having five
> string types as an advantage. IMO, the need, or even belief, that
five
> string types are necessary or even useful is a _strong_ indication
that
> all five are wrong.

It's the same as in C++:

char[]
wchar_t[]
std::string
std::wstring

The string types in Ada95 are very similar:

String
Wide_String
Unbounded_String
Wide_Unbounded_String