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From: Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/03
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Pascal Obry wrote:
> That was not my point. The problem is not the name, the problem is that
> C does not have a string type so there is no operator on them =, <, >, :=
> and no attribute 'Length, 'Last, 'First...

You can take 'Length of a STRING, but not 'Length of a Bounded_String. 
For Bounded_String, you are back to using functional notation:
Length(s), which is just like you have for C.  (The difference being
that Length(s) is presumably a constant time operation for
Bounded_String in Ada, but a linear time operation for char * in C.)

It is annoying when an "improved" version of a type loses some
operations over the basic version.  So much for "referential
transparency".

Or is it possible to write something like:

    for Bounded_String'Length use Length(Bounded_String);

?

Paul