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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Substrings as argument to procedures/functions
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:41:53 -0500
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"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.