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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5117b1b6391a0e06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer) References: <_Q%zc.7117$Wr.4869@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:41:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.1.175 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1087432887 63.184.1.175 (Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:41:27 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:41:27 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1593 Date: 2004-06-17T00:41:27+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > "Jeffrey Carter" wrote in message >> >> No, the best solution is to use >> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String. > > I'm not sure this is going to help - the style this is written in is > Ada83 and I've seen exactly this problem in '83 code written at a > sister site within the company I work for (don't worry Simon, it > wasn't yours! ;-) Even if this is Ada 83 (the OP simply said "ADA", but the code is legal and useless Ada 83 as well as Ada), pointers are not the best solution, assuming the declarations can be changed. -- Jeff Carter "Go and boil your bottoms." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 01