Simple library functions

[scallassig@mailexpire.com (Harald Korneliussen)]

I have been trying to solve some programming excercises from
www.topcoder.com in Ada, just to compare it to Java and the other
popular languages.

One problem I keep running into is the lack of common, useful
utilities in the libraries that come with Gnat & Ada. One thing is
that I had to write my own tokenizer. That gave me the opporunity to
emulate the String.split() method in newer versions of Java, OK*. But
now I have to do an even simpler task, converting a string of digits
to an integer, and as far as I can see there is no function for this
in the standard libraries!?
I hear there is a new revision of Ada coming. I really, really hope
they adress the lack of a standard library of utillity packages
instead of adding new language features.



* Anyone want it? :-)