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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:25:09 +0000 (UTC)
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"Jeffrey Carter" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> >
> > If  there is no reasonable upper limit on the LEN discriminant, if
> > say LEN can vary from 1 to hundreds of thousands, then the best
> > solution would be to use an array of pointers. This would be the only
> > reasonable way to create an array of objects of widely varying sizes.
> > For example:
>
> 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! ;-)

Not being allowed to change things at all is a common fixation when
porting an existing Ada83 application - nonsensical, but common.

Cheers

-- Martin