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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <mailman.998497411.5812.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, David C. Hoos
says...
>
>Some additional style comments:
>2.  The use of a construct like FS'Length would
>     better be replaced with FS'Last to cover cases like
>     the string being parsed is an input parameter to the
>     subprogram, and the caller calls with a slice not
>     starting with index 1.

Good catch. I missed that one.

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