Re: Flexible Strings (was Equality operator...)

[jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <3F2AA8DEC61418AE.502E81A8ECA1C4E7.3A25DE2FB38755A4@library-proxy.airnews.net> clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) writes:

> Heap usage is required for programs which solve problems whose size
> is unknown and run on machines with unknown memory resources.
> Embedded applications don't have these requirements, so dynamic allocation
> wasn't interesting to the Ada '83 design team.

This is where I start laughing.  Any reason why you think stating this
sort of laughable, completely unsupported and in direct conflict with
the facts opinion is of any use whatsoever?


> >Explicit_Conversion:
> >declare
> >   SA : constant String_Buffer_Array :=  (
> >      To_String_Buffer ("I'd"), 
> >      To_String_Buffer ("gladly"), 
> >      To_String_Buffer ("lose"),
> >      To_String_Buffer ("me"),
> >      To_String_Buffer ("to"),
> >      To_String_Buffer ("find"),
> >      To_String_Buffer ("you"));
> 
> This is about the point where C++ programmers turn away laughing.

As they go back to trying to get their templates to work - or just try
to figure out what they were even trying to say with them...

/Jon

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