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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.138.222 with SMTP id c91mr7172687ioj.138.1505198371869; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:39:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.29.212 with SMTP id 203mr433856itj.1.1505198371839; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!o200no186030itg.0!news-out.google.com!p6ni601itp.0!nntp.google.com!127no185345itw.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:39:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=51.174.245.155; posting-account=uulyKwoAAAA86DO0ODu--rZtbje8Sytn NNTP-Posting-Host: 51.174.245.155 References: <915874b5-52c0-4aa8-9023-82fddedb816f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: Egil H H Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 06:39:31 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48030 Date: 2017-09-11T23:39:31-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 8:19:01 AM UTC+2, Tarjei Jensen wrote: > A counted string is not reference counted. > > A counted string can be viewed as > > type counted_string is record > max : natural; > len : natural; > str : array range ( 1 .. max) of character; > end record; > How would this behave differently from a discriminated record? type My_String(Length : Positive) is record Last : Natural := 0; Item : String(1..Length); end record; -- ~egilhh