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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 17:59:01 +0200
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Date: 2017-09-12T17:59:01+02:00
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On 2017-09-12 16:07, Egil H H wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 3:43:40 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> So it can do with the custom type:
>>
>> with Ada.Text_IO;  use Ada.Text_IO;
>> procedure Test is
>>      Max : constant := 1000;
>>      subtype Max_Length is Natural range 0..Max;
>>      type Bounded (Size : Max_Length := Max_Length'Last) is record
>>         Length : Max_Length := 0;
>>         Text   : String (1..Size);
>>      end record;
>>      function Value (S : Bounded) return String is
>>      begin
>>         return S.Text (1..S.Length);
>>      end Value;
>>      procedure Set (S : in out Bounded; Value : String) is
>>      begin
>>         S.Length := Value'Length;
>>         S.Text (1..Value'Length) := Value;
>>      end Set;
>>      X : Bounded;
>>      Y : Bounded (10);
>> begin
>>      Set (X, "0123456789ABCDEFGH");
>>      Put_Line ("X=" & Value (X));
>>      Set (Y, "abc");
>>      X := Y;
>>      Put_Line ("X=" & Value (X));
>> end Test;
>>
> 
> ...and you _really_ don't see the value of having all this (and lots
> more) in _one_ place, implemented _once_, tried and tested?

No, I don't see value in bounded-length strings in the first place. So I 
have neither this nor Ada.Strings.Bounded anywhere.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de