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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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"Egil H H" <ehh.public@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:5126ef7a-3324-4e44-b110-5e4838189f5f@googlegroups.com...
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> Get off your high horse, for a change.

Except that in this case he's absolutely right. Anyone that thinks that a 
bounded string is preferable to an unbounded string or fixed string is 
rather confused (at a minimum, depending on compiler-specific behavior).

                           Randy.