Re: Aliasing or referencing assignment

[David Trudgett <wpower@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>]

Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:

> David Trudgett wrote:
>> Also, is the 'To_Unbounded_String("this is a string")' really
>> necessary? I thought I read in the ARM that string literals were
>> defined for all the string types.
>
> String literals are defined for all string types. However,
> Unbounded_String is not a string type. A string type is a
> one-dimensional array with components of a character
> type. Unbounded_String is a private type.

Well that explains that little mystery, then. I just didn't want to be
using all those "To_Unbounded_String" calls if I could avoid them. I
suppose they get optimised away in the actual object code, though.

Thanks for that.

Cheers,

David



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