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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Warning: Storage error Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 18:57:27 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: <14vvtor6816au.15qbbqi9jjpfk$.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: pFv5JukiA5DRwd1gSNRC4g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21618 Date: 2014-08-09T18:57:27+02:00 List-Id: On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:46:35 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote: > Using the standard library has the advantages of being more likely to be > correct, requiring less development effort, and being easier for future readers > to understand. Provided the library is used properly. Unbounded_String is not intended for keeping constant strings. Or, considering another example of its frequent *misuse*, for having String out-parameters. > If you're worried about the implementation of an abstraction in the standard > library in absence of any evidence that it is responsible for being unable to > meet your requirements then you probably shouldn't be using Ada. Ada (and > software engineering) is largely about abstraction and not worrying about > implementations unless one has to. I am worried about using wrong abstractions, which is poor engineering. Unbounded_String is firstly poorly designed (should have been a type related to String) and secondly is designed for a different purpose (Strings of varying length). -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de