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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Aliasing or referencing assignment
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:01:24 +0000 (UTC)
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David Trudgett wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>David Trudgett wrote:
>>
>>>Also, is the 'To_Unbounded_String("this is a string")' really
>>>necessary? I thought I read in the ARM that string literals were
>>>defined for all the string types.
>>
>>String literals are defined for all string types. However,
>>Unbounded_String is not a string type. A string type is a
>>one-dimensional array with components of a character
>>type. Unbounded_String is a private type.
> 
> 
> Well that explains that little mystery, then. I just didn't want to be
> using all those "To_Unbounded_String" calls if I could avoid them. I
> suppose they get optimised away in the actual object code, though.

Er, no - why would you think that?...