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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Unbounded vs Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Holders
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 01:15:04 +0300
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Simon Wright wrote:

> Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:
> 
>> What is 2.5(6)? There is no (6) in RM 2.5.
> 
> 2.6(6):
> 
>     A null string literal is a string_literal with no string_elements
>     between the quotation marks.

In my opinion, it would be better to change RM phrasing from "null string" 
to "empty string", because in some other languages (notably C) NULL means 
something other. It is just confusing.

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org