Re: A nongeneric bounded string array type

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:

> "Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> a �crit dans le 
> message de news:uwub7dvnz.fsf@earthlink.net...
> 
>> Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:
>> 
>>> It is also possible to write a direct replacement for 
>>> Ada.Strings.Bounded that is not generic, but takes a discriminant
>>>  for the max length.
>> 
>> There is a bounded string like that in the Charles library:
>> 
>> charles.strings.bounded
>> 
>> <http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles/>
>> 
> Or use the Variable_String package, available from Adalog's 
> components page: http://www.adalog.fr/compo2.htm

The Ada-83 PragmAda Reusable Components also had such a type, but with
the inclusion of bounded and unbounded strings in Ada in 1995, it was
dropped. It's generally better to have, and use, a standard form, even
if it's not exactly how you'd do it yourself, than to write something 
that does the same thing.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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