Re: Header-only Ada libraries...

[Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>]

> type C_String is new String with
>   Dynamic_Predicate => C_String'Length > 0
>   and then C_String (C_String'Last) = Nul;
> 
> For convience I added the following conversion routines between standard
> String types and C_String types in the Posix package:
> 
> 
> function "-" (Text : C_String) return String;
> -- Removes the last 'Nul' character and returns a normal String.
> 
> function "+" (Text : String) return C_String;
> -- Appends a 'Nul' character to a standard String and returns a C_String.
> 
> Not sure how well known this trick is so just mentioning it :)
> 

Ok, that’s pretty cool. Not seen that before.