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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:05:19 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On 29.11.12 11:52, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 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

type A is new Root_String'Class;  -- not Ada

>> 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?

That of making a subprograms work with any type of
string in current Ada.