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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 21:01:59 +0200
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Date: 2018-07-04T21:01:59+02:00
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On 2018-07-04 20:06, Shark8 wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 11:51:20 AM UTC-6, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice if the encoding and character set of a string were
>> "implementation details".  I'm not sure how to do it, but I think it is
>> worth trying to find a solution for Ada.  (I think I was introduced to
>> how the KDE library does it once, but IIRC only encoding was abstracted
>> away.)
> 
> Indeed so!
> This is the way we /should/ have strings; where [[Wide_]Wide_]String are all generic with things like 'character-set' and 'search' and 'encoding' as formal parameters.
> 
> Sadly this will likely never happen because it would break backwards compatibility.

It would break nothing. Old package will become renamings of new 
instances. Well, except for dire deforestation should new RM be ever 
printed...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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