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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Null unbounded string
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:53:31 +0300
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Simon Wright wrote:

> Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:
> 
>> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/09/2014 08:28 AM, Victor Porton wrote:
>>>> Is Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Null_Unbounded_String an empty string or is it
>>>> something different (like NULL char pointer in C)?
>>> 
>>> It's equivalent to an empty string. How it's implemented is unimportant.
>>
>> But where in the ARM it's said that it is equivalent to an empty string?
> 
> http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-A-4-5.html#p73

It does NOT say that null string is empty string.

Should we make a formal clarification request?

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org