From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2925b133078d1557 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Flexible Strings (was Equality operator...) Date: 1997/05/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 239231527 Distribution: world References: <9704301422.AA07755@most> <3F2AA8DEC61418AE.502E81A8ECA1C4E7.3A25DE2FB38755A4@library-proxy.airnews.net> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com