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Subject: RE: FW: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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> I thought we were talking about a function that /returned/ a 
> String or Unbounded_String. Of course one can use 
> To_Bounded_String, but then what's the point of the 
> Unbounded_String function?

No point. That was my point. Only String versions is enough.