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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Porting ADA source
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:13:17 +0200
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Wes Groleau wrote:

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> What is the advantage of forbidding "string" ?
> 
> to support these types.  Character was the only predefined
> type exempt (why was that different?), so arrays of Character
> with "portable" index types were used instead of String.

Because Character and Wide_Character are the only types which can't be
expressed in Ada itself. There are some form of enumeration but not all
values are legal Ada.

But you knew that, didn't you?

With Regards

Martin

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