Re: overload ":=" ???

[David Morton <dmorton@jinx.sckans.edu>]

>    Well, I guess it depends on what background you have on Ada (;-),
> when I read in an Ada source.
> 
> X := "sdfsfg";
> 
>    I know that X is a fixed string (or wide_string). When I read:
> 
> X := To_X ("sgsgs");
> 
>    I know that a change in representation is on the way (may be X
> isn't a fixed string after all), and it's not extra verbosity.

A semi-good point, but I still don't care...  Hopefully
X isn't defined so far away that I can't remember what it is...


>    This "sort of string" is built in Ada 95 under the name
> Bounded_String.

I looked at that, and it would be great, but...
RM A.04.04.106
seems to say that this isn't good with dynamic pointers
(or am I misreading this?)


>    If you allow programmers to play with assignment, you'll definitly
> damage the readability of all Ada sources.

what about "write-ability" ????

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