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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Help with type definition
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:57:29 -0700
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On 05/16/2014 12:37 AM, hanslad@gmail.com wrote:
>
>    type String_Type_Implementation(Count : Natural) is record
>       Data : String(1 .. Count) := "";
>    end record;
>
>    type String_Type_Implementation_Ptr is access String_Type_Implementation;
>
>    type String_Type is new Ada.Finalization.Controlled with record
>       Length         : Integer;
>       Implementation : String_Type_Implementation_Ptr;
>    end record;

String_Type is not suitable for sending over the network, so why not simply use 
Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String for the string value in type Node? You're 
going to have to construct the sequence of bytes to go over the network in 
either case.

A consistent coding and naming style, and a lot fewer occurrences of the 
sequence [t|T]ype would make your code easier to read.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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