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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.newsland.it!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:58:30 -0500 Organization: Ain't no organization here! Message-ID: <3ahk2nF6b46s6U1@individual.net> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <395uqaF5rhu2mU1@individual.net> <1111607633.301232.62490@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <4793664.vi5Yol0h1t@linux1.krischik.com> <1111682141.541662.113720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net SWoZc6tEv6+ob7rank7fgQRgFgZPeF+Jd1eLeEjiuTz7tbzOd9 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1111682141.541662.113720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9964 Date: 2005-03-24T23:58:30-05:00 List-Id: Jerry Coffin wrote: > In the end, you can call that what you will, and depending on how you > call it, my original statement about the multiplicity of classes > indicating a problem might need to be re-phrased. Ada 83 had one string type. Ada 95 added one due to the need to support more than 256 characters. Bounded String and Unbounded String are add-on packages created to support particular implementation needs. -- Wes Groleau I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. -- Larry DeLuca