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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Please Help.
Date: 1997/09/16
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Date: 1997-09-16T00:00:00+00:00
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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!