"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
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Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote:
> I came from Turbo Pascal. I still find it annoying to have to write
> "To_String" and "To_Unbounded_String" everywhere, but I can't remember
>being particularly confused.

What I generally do is rename these functions to the unary "+" operator. By
doing this, I still have an indication that the conversion operation takes
place, but it does not take up a lot of room.