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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:15:35 +0200
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On 12/09/2017 09:02, Tarjei Jensen wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 September 2017 08:38:16 UTC+2, gautier...@hotmail.com  wrote:
>> Have a look at the package Ada.Strings.Bounded ...
>> It is rarely encountered in programs, but available since Ada 95.
>> _________________________
>> Gautier's Ada programming
>> http://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ada
>> NB: follow the above link for a valid e-mail address
> 
> Perhaps there is a reason for the non-use?

Yes, bounded-length strings have no practical use in Ada.

The reason for that is that differently to other languages Ada can 
return fixed-length strings on the stack and can pass string slices down 
where a fixed-length string is expected. This eliminates most of the 
cases for bounded-length strings, the minuscule rest is handled by 
Unbounded_Strings.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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