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From: amado.alves@netcabo.pt (M?rio Amado Alves)
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Subject: Re: SVG to PNG [was: Ada_Arrays Project]
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> > I'm entertaining the idea of a generic package Ada_Arrays and children
> > where Ada_Arrays is like Ada.Strings except the element type is
> > generic instead of Character.
> > 
> > Anybody besides me foresees the great usefulness of Ada_Arrays?
> > Anybody did it?
> 
> I think it's the sort of thing that has been done before by lots of people, 
> generally not in a very organised or uniform way. I would guess the biggest 
> problem would be that people would be reluctant to pay for this sort of 
> thing; they would think "Crikey, I could just as easily write that myself," 
> even if they actually were wrong.

I would be willing to pay--under the referenced conditions.