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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Please Help.
Date: 1997/09/16
Date: 1997-09-16T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.874434176@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 341D4041.4AF8@gsfc.nasa.gov


Stephe said:

<<Excellent point, which I missed. It is definitely more important to
  learn the fundamentals. On the other hand, if your learning control
  structures, and you want to print a diagnostic message that is built
  from several strings, Unbounded_Strings are nice.>>


What's wrong with Put_Line ("value of x is " & Integer'Image (X) & ....) ..

<<As I thought. So Dale (if you're still reading :), will you be pointing
  out that using Unbounded_String does have a big downside? When you get
  to teaching about dynamic memory allocation and managment, you could
  point out that they've been doing it all along without thinking about
  it, just like a lot of professional programmers!.>>


What big downside? What's wrong with using Controlled types here, it is
certainly the intended and expected implementation!





  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-09-16  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-09  0:00 Please Help Ken
1997-09-09  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-11  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12  0:00     ` Tristan Ludowyk
1997-09-12  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-13  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-12  0:00       ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-12  0:00         ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-15  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15  0:00               ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-09-16  0:00               ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-09-17  0:00                 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19  0:00                     ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-19  0:00                       ` Robert S. White
1997-09-20  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-15  0:00     ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-16  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-09  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-25  6:55 please help Phosphorus
2001-10-25  8:22 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-25 12:35 ` Marc A. Criley
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