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From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch)
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Subject: Re: conversion
Date: 7 Jul 2003 14:36:51 -0700
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Stephen Leake wrote:

>> :> > The varying strings of unspecified maximum size are common for
>> :> > many applications outside of current, quite restricted Ada
>> :> > world. And arrays of such strings are no less common.
>> :>
>> :>Care to list some examples?
>> : 
>> :  /* C/C++ example */
>> : 
>> :  char *Titles[] = {
>> :                    "Quizionary",
>> :                    "Nose To Nose",
>> :                    "Myself",
>> :                    "General Dissent",
>> :                    "Veteran's Opinion",
>> :                    "Corporate Science Weekly",
>> :                    "Truth, Wealth, Health",
>> :                    "Bribery Times"
>> :                   };
>
>These are _not_ "varying strings of unspecified length"!
>
>These are all _constant_ strings, whose length is determined from the
>initializer. The compiler should put them in the "constant" section,
>so you can't even treat them as ordinary C null-terminated variable
>strings; you can't write to them!

"varying" always is relative to some account of time, right? Well, I meant
more "lifetime" than "run-time" of a program. 



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia