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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <3BCC8AF0.A8B1115D@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
>
>  Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_Unbounded_String(J)
>   Ada.String.Unbounded."&"
>  Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_Unbounded_String(K);
>
>I don't see that as at all readable. I'm not sure quite what would be
>better, tho. I'm just a newbie. :-)

Ahhh. Well, I *do* think "use type" is perfectly fine, even for newbies. (Are
there folks who don't? I keep hearing that there are.) So I'd expect this code
to look more like:

Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_Unbounded_String (J) & K; 
-- The second conversion was unnessecary, as there are "&"
-- functions that take String as one of the parameters.

That looks quite a bit better, and its still clear from reading this exactly
what type will result and where I can go to look it up. Sure, it would have been
nice if you didn't have to type "Unbounded" and "String" twice, but most
*decent* package designers won't do that to you. ;-)

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