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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:55:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <915874b5-52c0-4aa8-9023-82fddedb816f@googlegroups.com> <67345f73-530c-400b-9eb4-63eeb440154c@googlegroups.com> <9a6338d9-83be-4e45-b8b7-edc56e33537f@googlegroups.com> <2deb28e2-f7e8-4461-b8b8-c2c6cf2784aa@googlegroups.com> <5de470d2-aa3d-4c02-ae2b-266c33a289fe@googlegroups.com> <5126ef7a-3324-4e44-b110-5e4838189f5f@googlegroups.com> <3c76c2ed-319f-410c-8dec-6a80a0948c7a@googlegroups.com> <1c8a3a96-1cdb-4c16-9c25-2da9bbf52cc9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader.eternal-september.org; posting-host="38188849e0ca81774c9f26087babd7f1"; logging-data="23339"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/snPmKL04BtEcTyvLZ184fk/3X7Oigld0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fPJCKpXX9iTwPdjA4I1vCI1XliI= sha1:Ik4SMcVLPbnjvikjw7qZw5NWCAw= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48081 Date: 2017-09-12T19:55:28+01:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > This is why Bounded_String are not used. The problem space almost > never provides any upper bound. So the bound is an implementation > constraint and thus a premature optimization of worst kind. In my (current) case, the problem domain requires Max_Name_Length : constant := 14;