From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Substrings as argument to procedures/functions
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:41:53 -0500
Date: 2016-04-26T13:41:53-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nfocph$1cs$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nfn0mh$abh$1@dont-email.me
"Georg Bauhaus" <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 26.04.16 00:07, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> Use of predefined types is evil, so who cares?
>
> Anyone coming from just about any other language, since they
> have no idea that there could be such a fine thing as user defined
> fundamental types! ;-)
>
> So, how does one introduce them to programming in Ada without using
> library types but still using strings, and text I/O?
Using Root_String'Class, of course. Which Ada doesn't have, unfortunately.
I'd rather fix that rather than noddling with Standard types - the
Wide_Wide_Unbounded_UTF8_String nonsense doesn't make sense (but maybe it's
UTF8_Unbounded_Wide_Wide_String? Bah hambug.)
Randy.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 8:25 Substrings as argument to procedures/functions reinkor
2016-04-12 9:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-12 16:55 ` reinkor
2016-04-12 18:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-13 4:44 ` reinkor
2016-04-13 7:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-04-13 10:16 ` Brian Drummond
2016-04-13 11:43 ` reinkor
2016-04-13 11:54 ` Pascal Obry
2016-04-13 12:30 ` Mart van de Wege
2016-04-13 12:47 ` Egil H H
2016-04-13 13:19 ` Mart van de Wege
2016-04-13 16:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-12 18:17 ` Robert A Duff
2016-04-12 18:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-04-13 21:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-25 15:33 ` rieachus
2016-04-25 22:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-04-26 6:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-04-26 18:41 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2016-04-13 11:22 ` G.B.
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