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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,463c5796782db6d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-11 07:48:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.173.119.178!not-for-mail From: Peter Amey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [Spark] Arrays of Strings Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:50:25 +0100 Message-ID: <3E96D631.7060604@praxis-cs.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.173.119.178 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050072504 12226437 62.173.119.178 (16 [69815]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36092 Date: 2003-04-11T15:50:25+01:00 List-Id: Rod Chapman wrote: > Lutz Donnerhacke wrote in message news:... > [Rod's solution snipped] The crucial thing about all this is that the nasty details of interfacing to the dubious C interface are all contrained to a thin layer in the package body. Outside this interface we have a nice clean link to the rather purer world of SPARK. I tend to se this in the same light as Ada's view of things like unchecked conversion: it's allowed but we have to be open and explicit about what we are doing. Peter