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From: "Pete" <tyrone@nowhere.org>
Subject: Re: Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings)
Date: 2000/06/04
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> 2) The Java syntax is nice - only at initialisation time. You have no
aggregates in Java, so the corresponding
syntax would not be
> allowed if you wanted to put other values in the array after
initialisation.

    i'm not sure what you mean...if i wanted to change an element of the
string array, i would just assign it
via s[i] = <whatever>
you could also resize the array, without any looping statements
(System.arrayCopy)
>

 also
suppose the ada array (1 based)

AR : constant String_List := (new String'("have"), new String'("a"), new
String'("good"), new String'("day"));

i hope that i can say ar(2) := <variable length string> without having to
worry about contraint errors, or having to free the old ar(2) first, the
compiler should be smart enough to figure it out.