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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: [newbie] Need som feedback on code snip
Date: 1999/10/24
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"Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> writes:

|   Can I take this one?  Can I?  Can I please... ;-)

Take what? Sorry I don't understand.
 
|    Unbounded strings do for you all that ugly pointer and memory
| allocation and reclamation stuff that you have to worry about in C. 
| And,
| if you are using GNAT, there is a package Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Text_IO,
| that makes it still easier:

Ah thanks.

Thanks to everybody for replying!

The reason that I used aliased was that I wanted to see how it
worked. I agree that one should not use it for this simple example
though. Sorry for not commenting it.
-- 
Preben Randhol                 Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, 
[randhol@pvv.org]              And thou art wedded to calamity. 
[http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]                    -- W. Shakespeare