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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada)
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:15:14 -0000
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Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> I would expect those string packages (and especially the string IO
> packages) would use operating system facilities in some
> implementations.
> The underlying operating system calls might not be symmetric at all.
> The bodies might not even be written in Ada.

They could always be 'defined' as proposed by Steve but the implementation
might use 'magic' to make it happen.

Cheers

-- Martin