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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: memory leakages with Ada?
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Steve Doiel wrote:
> 
> For example, if you want to read a block of data that is preceded by a count
> that gives the amount of data, in Ada the code would be something like:
> 
>   nbBytes := GetNbBytes( dataSource );
>   declare
>     dataBuffer : ByteBuffer( 1 .. nbBytes );
>   begin
>      GetData( dataBuffer );
>   end;

No, Ada looks little like this. It looks much better:

Num_Bytes := Get_Count (Data_Source);

Read_Data : declare
   Data_Buffer : Byte_List (1 .. Num_Bytes);
begin -- Read_Data
   Get_Data (Data => Data_Buffer);
   ...
end Read_Data;

-- 
Jeffrey Carter