From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5430b81ad265fc75 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-14 02:06:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Array Of Constant Strings? References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:06:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1045217198 144.132.47.50 (Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:06:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:06:38 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34094 Date: 2003-02-14T10:06:38+00:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org wrote: > > a more versatile solution would be to use aliased strings, and string > In what way is that better than the simple solution of saying you've > got names, which are 7 character strings, and you've got an array > of them? It can be used in situations where you won't have strings all of the same length. I don't know the application (of course) but it could be that at some time in the future different length strings could be used. Dale