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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ann: Natools.Chunked_Strings, beta 1
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:57:15 +0100
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:39:30 +0100, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> By the way, I feel the original message is based on erroneous assumptions  
> about implementations of Ada.Strings.Unbounded. Nothing in the RM requires  
> an implementations to use a single array for unbounded strings, and on the  
> opposite, it says `type Unbounded_String is private;`.

I false assumption is IMO that strings are large and need to be manipulated
as a whole, e.g. pieces substituted etc.

In each such case the user should consider:

1. maybe the pattern he uses is wrong (e.g. poor parsing techniques
splitting and merging strings physically)

2. maybe string is an inappropriate data structure and something like text
buffer should be used instead.

It is C where everything is char*, not Ada.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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