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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: [newbie] Need som feedback on code snip
Date: 1999/10/22
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In article <m31zan4l1n.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>,
  Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> wrote:
>
> comment on it. It works, but is is the Right Way to do it or is there
> a smarter way. I'm learning Ada95 on my own and could need some
> feedback from somebody experienced with Ada.
>
> with Text_IO; use Text_IO;
> with Ada.Strings.Unbounded; use Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
>

If it were me, I'd get rid of the "aliased", String_Ptr, and
Text_Pointer (and the silly hungarian routine name). All you really need
is:

 procedure My_Test is
    Text : Unbounded_String := To_Unbounded_String("Hello world!");
 begin
    Put_Line(To_String(Text));
    Text := To_Unbounded_String("Hello yourself!");
    Put_Line(To_String(Text));
 end My_Test;

There's no point in aliasing things when you don't have to, and it can
cause serious maintanence headaches in larger programs.

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