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Subject: Re: Question on bounded / unbounded strings
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:36:38 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> An array of characters with known bounds is a bounded string.

It'd be less confusing in an Ada context to call this a *fixed* string.