Re: What do you think about this?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message 
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> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
>> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message
>> news:864mllqv7c.fsf@stephe-leake.org...
>
>>> Using a bounded string always involves a hidden length limit; if it's
>>> too small, you'll hit it sometime, if it's too big, you're wasting
>>> storage.
>>
>> Agreed, but in that case he probably should be using an unbounded string.
>> Let the compiler do the work, don't write memory management code yourself
>> (you'll always get it wrong).
>
> The use case is declaring arrays of constant strings; no memory
> management involved.

There's *always* memory management involved (speaking from the perspective 
of a compiler author), especially as Ada doesn't support arrays of constant 
strings of different lengths. The memory that holds them comes from 
somewhere...and you don't want to be writing that code yourself.

                                                  Randy.