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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:28:10 +0200
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Jason King wrote:

> Ada string doesn't work because it raises errors for assignments of
> shorter as well as longer strings.  ada.strings.bounded and
> ada.strings.unbounded are issues because assignment (:=) doesn't work
> for them and concatenation is method not an operator.  As far as I can
> tell I can't overload the assignment operator or the || operator.
> Other than creating a new language is there some way to make a
> varchar2-like first-class datatype that has its own operators?
 
There seems to have been some misinformation somewhere, try
this:

with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
with Ada.Text_IO;

procedure v is

   use Ada.Strings.Unbounded, Ada;

   x: Unbounded_String := Null_Unbounded_String;

begin
   x := x & "Hello";
   x := x & "World";
   Text_IO.put_line(to_string(x));
end v;