From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54c513170bafd693 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Desirability of C++ Date: 2000/05/02 Message-ID: <390EEF24.BD36AA24@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618287945 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390DEC7F.9429C82C@online.no> <390E2A20.B647D0D6@maths.unine.ch> <8em8mb$evd$1@wanadoo.fr> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 2 May 2000 17:07:17 +0100, mac13-32.unine.ch Organization: Maths - Uni =?iso-8859-1?Q?Neuch=E2tel?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > and so on :-). IMHO the day of creation of Ada.Strings.Bounded was > > a bad one... Jean-Pierre Rosen: > Not at all. Variable_String is the perfect tool when you have an Abstract > Data Type that you choose to *implement* as a String. For example, you may > have a type Last_Name in your data base, and it makes perfect sense to > implement it as a Bounded_String. > You don't have one instantiation per maximum-length; you have one > instantiation per abstraction. Think higher, please ;-) Sorry, I'm a bit bold. And I the machine I'm using makes me think different, but not higher at all! But would you agree that your Variable_String [http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog/compo2.htm] is missing as Ada.Variable_String ? _____________________________________________ Gautier -- http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/