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From: "Michael F. Yoder" <yoder@decada.zko.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Unbounded string deallocation
Date: 1999/08/26
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Matthew Heaney wrote:

> o  To_Unbounded_String takes type String as an argument; it does NOT take an
> integer type.

Not so, Matthew.  See A.4.5(10) and A.4.5(76).  The "new" in Andy's code
is incorrect, and the function should be named To_Unbounded_String, but
this is a way to yield an uninitialized string of the desired length.

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