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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: IBM 437 encoded String to UTF-16 Wide_String
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:52:14 +0100
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Date: 2012-11-29T11:52:14+01:00
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:51:27 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> It's just that
> 
> - if Ada does not get a complete apparatus for handling
>    all string types in some Root_String'Class, and

Bad
 
> - if I want my subprograms to work with different
>    types of strings,

type A is new B; -- Ada 83

> this particular kind of problem can be solved with the help of a
> generic formal package that a user of my programs has instantiated,

Egh, which problem? You say that if I don't want a car, a tin opener may
serve me instead. This kind of logic? First, I do want a car. Second, don't
eat canned food anyway.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de