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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> But see my previous message.  Such a type is useless for ragged arrays.
>   You can create ragged arrays in Ada using Bounded_String or
> Unbounded_String, but doing so requires that there is no discriminant
> for the outer type.

Good point!