Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> a �crit dans le message :
390E2A20.B647D0D6@maths.unine.ch...
> tmoran@bix.com wrote:
>
> > >made the right decision on strings when they selected counted strings
for
> > >Turbo Pascal/Delphi even if they are limited to 255 characters or less.
> >   How do those differ from
> >     ... is new Ada.Strings.Bounded.Generic_Bounded_Length(255);
>
Have a look at package Variable_String, available from
http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog/compo2.htm

>
> and so on :-). IMHO the day of creation of Ada.Strings.Bounded was
> a bad one...
>
Not at all. Variable_String is the perfect tool when you have an Abstract
Data Type that you choose to *implement* as a String. For example, you may
have a type Last_Name in your data base, and it makes perfect sense to
implement it as a Bounded_String.
You don't have one instantiation per maximum-length; you have one
instantiation per abstraction. Think higher, please ;-)

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