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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: API design considerations - variable-length array in record type
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Date: 2012-10-08T12:13:46+01:00
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> A straightforward choice is a predefined instantiation of
> Ada.Containers.Vectors for Integer and this would be probably the
> least surprising, especially in the context of Y : Unbounded_String,
> but at the same time I'm open to consider some more lightweight
> alternatives.

This would be my choice!

> The problem is - any other alternative I can think of leads to the
> complication of API in the form of introducing
> Ada.Finalization.Controlled to the picture.

You could use "private with".