From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Slice and Unbounded String
Date: 1996/12/01
Date: 1996-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.849445209@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1prut.2L3@world.std.com
Bob Duff said (of the bogus declaration of String_Access in
Ada.Strings.Unbounded):
"Somebody stuck this in at the last minute, just as a convenience."
Are you sure of this? Who? And why did it end up so obviously in the
wrong place? With a bogus justification:
75 The type String_Access provides a (non-private) access type for explicit
processing of unbounded-length strings. The procedure Free performs an
unchecked deallocation of an object of type String_Access.
Since the type String_Access has nothing whatsoever to do with the
type Unbounded_String, I find the wording in para 75 incomprehensible.
Mind you a standard String_Access type would be a VERY helpful addition
to the language, because then everyone could use it easily, and you would
get better interchangable reuse of standard components using this type.
Ada.Strings would be a good place to put it, since there is almost
nothing there now, but you definitely do NOT want to casually drag
in Strings.Unbvounded just to get this definition.
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1996-11-27 0:00 ` Slice and Unbounded String Robert A Duff
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Ben Brosgol
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Gnat v3.05 bug or compilation problem MAKOUDI Jaouad (Stag. Kermarrec)
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Root of a GNAT problem (was: " Peter Hermann
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-12-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1996-12-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-12 0:00 ` John Cosby
1996-12-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Slice and Unbounded String Robert Dewar
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