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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> The reason for that is that differently to other languages Ada can
> return fixed-length strings on the stack and can pass string slices
> down where a fixed-length string is expected. This eliminates most of
> the cases for bounded-length strings, the minuscule rest is handled by
> Unbounded_Strings.

Bounded_Strings are good where you can't use heap allocation or
finalization (e.g. in smaller embedded systems).