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From: "Pete" <tyrone@nowhere.org>
Subject: Re: Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings)
Date: 2000/06/04
Date: 2000-06-04T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <LVu_4.10342$kf5.70362@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39394E0B.75BD479C@telepath.com


> type String_Ptr is access String;
> type String_List is array (Natural range <>) of String_Ptr;
> AR : constant String_List := (new String'("have"), new String'("a"), new
> String'("good"), new String'("day"));

my whole point is the complexity of the syntax. compare the above to
    String st[] = new String[] { "have", "a", "good", "day"};
The ada code above has two new types in order to process an array of
*primitive* types.

>
> I've never done this myself because in 11 years of Ada work I've never had
a
> much need for ragged string arrays. That's probably why Ada doesn't come
with a
> type for them. :-)
i've already had a use for them in the 6 months that i started this new ada
project.

> T.E.D.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-06-04  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-02  0:00 C vs. Ada - strings Wes Groleau
2000-05-02  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-06  0:00       ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-04  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05  0:00           ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-05  0:00             ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-06  0:00           ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-06  0:00             ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-07  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09  0:00                 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-02  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-02  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03  0:00   ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-03  0:00     ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-04  0:00       ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-18  0:00       ` Pete
2000-05-18  0:00         ` dale
2000-05-18  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-19  0:00             ` dale
2000-05-21  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-22  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-22  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-24  0:00                 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-24  0:00                   ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-24  0:00                     ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-25  0:00                       ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-25  0:00                         ` 'img Keith Thompson
2000-05-25  0:00                           ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-26  0:00                         ` 'img dmitry
2000-05-26  0:00                           ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-26  0:00                           ` 'img Brian Rogoff
2000-05-26  0:00                             ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-25  0:00                       ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-19  0:00         ` C vs. Ada - strings Geoff Bull
2000-05-19  0:00           ` mike
2000-05-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-03  0:00           ` Pete
2000-06-03  0:00             ` Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Ted Dennison
2000-06-04  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-06-04  0:00               ` Pete [this message]
2000-06-04  0:00                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-04  0:00                   ` Pete
2000-06-05  0:00                     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-05  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-05  0:00                   ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-05  0:00                     ` David Botton
2000-06-05  0:00                       ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-06  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
2000-06-06  0:00                   ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-06  0:00                     ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-03  0:00             ` C vs. Ada - strings Ken Garlington
2000-06-03  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-04  0:00                 ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-04  0:00                 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-05-04  0:00   ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-05-04  0:00     ` Gautier
2000-05-05  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-05  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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