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On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 12:22:12 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> Yes, but they would be different. A more close example would be:
> 
> type Bounded_String (Bound : Natural := Max) is record
>     Length : Natural := 0;
>     Text   : String (1..Bound);
> end record;
> 

Well, I don't have unlimited memory, so allocating Natural'Last number of Characters for all my strings is not an option for me, but I guess YMMV.

(Sure, you can use a subtype other than Natural, but how do you choose an upper bound that is both reasonably large to fit most needs, yet reasonably small to limit memory usage?)