Re: FW: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?

[Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>]

amado.alves wrote:
> I meant *Ada.Strings.Bounded* is useful, not bounded strings
> everywhere. Just one variety is enough for the each tool,
> given that there are already conversion utilities to/from
> the other varieties.  How would you regard multiplying
> Ada.Text_IO by all string varieties?

Simply by stating that all the routines behave in exactly
the same fashion as those in Ada.Text_IO, except for....

And then make the list of exceptions as small as possible.
Preferably NONE.

As for resources, in general, a package that is not with'd
does not consume much resources.  And if it is used, a package
that merely calls a conversion routine and then Ada.Text_IO,
probably adds less overhead than an explicit writing of the
same thing by a user.

-- 
Wes Groleau

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