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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: slice'access?
Date: 26 May 2002 07:22:50 -0700
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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<_gVH8.619$9J7.68226356@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>...
> >    Slice : aliased String := S (X .. Y);
> >    Ptr : String_Pointer;
> > begin
> >    Ptr := Slice'[Unchecked_]Access;
>   But that's a pointer to a string, not a slice.  The 
> string is
> initialized by copying, which is what I'm trying to 
> avoid.

And that is obviously impossible (except by using
unrestricted_access in GNAT, and there you have
to be careful about the scope of the created bounds template.