"Jeffrey Carter" a �crit dans le message de news:15Bjb.3193> The Ada-83 PragmAda Reusable Components also had such a type, but with > the inclusion of bounded and unbounded strings in Ada in 1995, it was > dropped. It's generally better to have, and use, a standard form, even > if it's not exactly how you'd do it yourself, than to write something > that does the same thing. > Depends on your definition of "the same thing".... Package Variable_String is pure, which allows Variable_Strings to be exchanged between partitions. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr