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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Array of Unbounded_String vs Indefinite_Vectors(Natural, String)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:52:54 +0300
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Shark8 wrote:

> On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 3:48:48 PM UTC-6, Victor Porton wrote:
>> I need to develop an API which return a list of strings.
>> 
>> I have two possible design choices for the result type:
>> 
>> 1. type T is array(Natural range <>) of Unbounded_String;
>> 
>> 2. package V is new Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Vectors(Natural, String);
>> 
>> Which one of the two to choose?
>> 
>> The first has the advantage that it is a regular array not a fancy
>> container. The second one has the advantage that the element type is
>> String not a fancy Unbounded_String.
>> 
>> Please help me to make the choice!
> 
> Personally I like the vector option.

Why?

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org