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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5117b1b6391a0e06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!0f19ed38!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1087410710.477506@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:33:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.58.140 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1087482806 141.154.58.140 (Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:33:26 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:33:26 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1624 Date: 2004-06-17T14:33:26+00:00 List-Id: "Bj�rn Persson" wrote in message news:BkeAc.96157$dP1.313881@newsc.telia.net... 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.