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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Unbounded string deallocation
Date: 1999/08/30
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In article <37CA8ABF.21F6F177@pwfl.com>,
  e108678@pwflcom wrote:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > In article <37C56E59.218CA190@pwfl.com>,
> >   e108678@pwflcom wrote:
> >  And if Text_IO and some other basic things had
Unbounded_String
> > > alternatives, you wouldn't even need these calls.
> >
> > Note the package Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Text_IO
> > in GNAT!
>
> Very nice. However it is clearly not a part of the language
standard, so
> if you need portability for some reason, this might be a
problem.

It is of course provided in all versions of GNAT, so it is
fully portable across all GNAT platforms. Generally when we
make something a grandchild in Ada, rather than making it
a child of GNAT, we are suggesting that we think it is a
reasonable addition for other vendors to copy (this is much
more relevant than worrying about the next version of the
standard which, if it appears, is many years away).

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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