Re: Array Of Constant Strings?

["Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>]

"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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> Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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> >
> > Will you collect a few impressions students have of the
> > readability of Ada programs? (As this might add more substance to
> > the argument that Ada syntax has advantages.)
>
> Well, here's one case where the C syntax is much simpler.  In order to
> declare an array of strings in C, all I have to do is:

> Tucker showed this on CLA once:
>
>    SA : constant String_Array :=
>      (new String'("now"),
>       new String'("is"),
>       new String'("the"),
>       new String'("time"));
>
> Since all the string literals have static values, then no heap is
> really allocated.  But this is really a compiler optimization -- I
> don't know whether you can really depend on it.

Do you make it standard practice to second guess the compiler?  As I
recalled to do so is usually a bad idea.  If it makes so much of a
differencem, test your given compiler and complain to the vendor if it
doesn't perform such an optimization.