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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2f1406ca802cdec5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Aliasing or referencing assignment References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:40:30 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126280431 147.24.111.90 (Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:40:31 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:40:31 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4555 Date: 2005-09-09T08:40:30-07:00 List-Id: David Trudgett wrote: > > Also, is the 'To_Unbounded_String("this is a string")' really > necessary? I thought I read in the ARM that string literals were > defined for all the string types. String literals are defined for all string types. However, Unbounded_String is not a string type. A string type is a one-dimensional array with components of a character type. Unbounded_String is a private type. -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com