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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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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...

That's not possible. As you like to say, String /= String'Class. The new 
libraries would almost all take String'Class (or whatever stand-in there 
is).

                                             Randy.