Re: Please review and comment

["Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:VlX97.14112$ar1.47292@www.newsranger.com...
> In article <9k9a46$8f1$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says...

> I would actually tell beginners to use perfectly-sized strings, and only
resort
> to Ada.Strings.* when the above can't be easily done. Newbies can indeed
be
> pointed at the spec for Ada.Strings.Unbounded without much other
explanatory
> text. Its the techniques for creating and dealing with perfectly-sized
strings
> in Ada that really need to be shown.
>
>

> Its true that Strings are, in a way, just a special case of dealing with
> unbounded arrays. However, they are also the case that a newbie is most
likely
> to stumble across first. Get them comfortable with strings, then show them
that
> *any* array can be used this way, and watch the mental lightbulb go on.
Its
> kinda fun whenever I do it.
>

Amen to that. You just rephrased what I thought I said...

(In fact I recall submitting some FAQ entries on working with fixed sized
strings - of type String - maybe they are on AdaPower somewhere).

Ehud