Re: slice'access?

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> 
> Is there a NICE way to create an access to a slice?

There's always something along the lines of

declare
   Slice : aliased String := S (X .. Y);
   Ptr : String_Pointer;
begin
   Ptr := Slice'[Unchecked_]Access;
end;

but I get the feeling this doesn't meet your definition of NICE.

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