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Niklas Holsti wrote:

> If I wanted to discard the storage of an Unbounded_String variable S at 
> some point in the program, before S goes out of scope, I would assign S 
> := Null_Unbounded_String. This is likely to discard the storage for S, 
> but I think the Ada standard does not guarantee that it happens at the 
> assignment; it might happen later.

Much as I'm used to with Java and C#; thanks. I'd need to know if I were 
doing hard real time, but then if I don't know a maximum length for a 
string I couldn't show compliance with hard real time constraints 
anyway, could I?