Re: Manifesto against Vector

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
> 
>> Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote:
>> 
>>>This is quite obvious that the most natural name for this container in
>>>Ada is Unbounded_Array, because this name perfectly associates with both
>>>"array" and Unbounded_String, for which it is natural generalization.
>> 
>> But perhaps Unbounded_Array might be used for something far more Ada
>> like:
>> 
>> package Unbounded_String
>> is new
>>    Unbounded_Array (
>>       Element_Type => Character,
>>       Index_Type => Natural,
>>       Base_Array => String);
> 
> Right. Unbounded_String is a special case of an unbounded array; in
> hindsight, it would have been much better for Ada 95 to have had an
> unbounded array package and to have defined Unbounded_String in terms of
> it. That didn't happen, though, so there's no point in worrying about it.

But there is still Unicode_Character aka Wide_Wide_Character. They will need
Unbounded, Bounded, Fixed etc. packages as well. 

So perhaps one should rethink the String Library.

With Regards

Martin
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