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On 09/12/2017 04:36 PM, 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;
>>
> ...
>>      Y : Bounded (10);
> 
> Also, allocating 1000 Characters for a string of max length 10 is hardly an optimal solution...

If an actual discriminant is provided, the default is not used. This only 
allocates 10 characters.

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Jeff Carter
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