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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:51:36 +0200
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:31:52 GMT, Matthew Heaney
<matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote:

>The problem with Ada.Strings.Unbounded is that to do anything useful
>with it requires a conversion to type String, which is grossly
>inefficient, not to mention awkward.

Yes, but the problem is deeper - unbounded string are not arrays.

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