From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Effective use of derived types
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:38:43 +0200
Date: 2014-07-25T19:38:43+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1xeciz1z2smla$.lxa15ypfbre9$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lqu19o$k7a$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:40:27 +0300, Victor Porton wrote:
> I write an Ada library (in fact thick bindings to a C library), which (among
> other) deals with some strings, including URIs.
>
> Should I introduce new type for URI strings?
Yes.
> type URI_String is new String;
No.
URI is not a string. It has a textual representation, which is a string
(one of many types of strings). If you want a type for URI it should keep
its fields. You will have functions alike to attributes Value and Image to
convert URI from and to String.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2014-07-25 16:40 Effective use of derived types Victor Porton
2014-07-25 17:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2014-07-25 18:00 ` Victor Porton
2014-07-25 18:40 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-25 19:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-26 1:33 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-26 3:34 ` Shark8
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