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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/31
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dennison@telepath.com writes:

> In a severe jam a declare block can be used to get a localized
> constant string, or one of the ada.strings packages can be used.

Rather odd to describe using a declare block to declare a string object
only in a "severe jam," since this is the normal, intended usage!

   declare
      Name : constant String := Get_Name (File);
   begin
   ...


Or

   declare
      Name : String := Get_Name (File);
   begin
      Make_Uppercase (Name);
      ...