From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Re: Array of Unbounded_String vs Indefinite_Vectors(Natural, String)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 15:30:45 +0300
Date: 2017-10-22T15:30:45+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <osi31k$188k$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: osgfbr$vfc$1@gioia.aioe.org
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!
"2" is preferred, because it is more flexible: String can be replaced with
some another type without big code changes.
--
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
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2017-10-21 21:48 Array of Unbounded_String vs Indefinite_Vectors(Natural, String) Victor Porton
2017-10-22 0:51 ` Shark8
2017-10-22 10:52 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-23 16:32 ` Shark8
2017-10-23 17:30 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-11-06 4:42 ` Robert Eachus
2017-10-22 12:30 ` Victor Porton [this message]
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