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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/02
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tmoran@bix.com wrote in message ...
>>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);

Turbopascal/Delphi strings work the way strings should work with the exception
that one cannot get a new distinct type which you can in Ada with the new
keyword. It might not always be convenient to have all strings assignment
compatible. But regardless: The look and feel of turbopascal/delphi strings is
right. Add ada and it could be wonderful.

All strings are basically assignment compatible. You can write a := b; even if
a and b are of different sizes. And b might be declared larger than a, but as
long as the length of b is less or equal to the maximum size of a, assignment
works.

line : string[80];
short_line : string[40];

line := "Nice weather";

short_line := line;

Greetings,