From: "amado.alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Subject: RE: style Q: type .. is new String;
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:17:58 -0000
Date: 2004-01-09T17:17:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.12.1073668705.279.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
>>Though I create new types regularly for numeric variables, I've only
>>rarely used other than the standard String type. That saves doing type
>>conversions, but it would be nice to have strong type checking help me
>>detect errors. Do other folks use new String types a lot and find it
>>works out well?
>No. But my reason is different. I use Bounded_String a lot...
Me too. And I also use Unbounded_String a lot because it has the wonderful feature of memory magic (no memory associated with a US object is lost upon assignment or scope exit). (Shameless publicity: I'll expound this memory magic approach to container design in Ada-Europe 2004 in the half day tutorial "No Pointers, Great Programs". See you there ;-)
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2004-01-09 18:17 style Q: type .. is new String; amado.alves
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2004-01-09 17:34 ` Duncan Sands
2004-01-09 0:00 tmoran
2004-01-09 2:31 ` Stephen Leake
2004-01-09 2:58 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-09 16:10 ` Robert I. Eachus
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