Re: different compilers: different standard types?????

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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"Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> a �crit dans le message de
news:mailman.112.1079678230.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> String is another slightly disturbing thing. I'd rather have an Ada.Arrays
> generic on the types of index and element. Talk small. And then the same
> "create your own integers" argument would apply here. Create your own
> Strings. But this is designing a new language. (No, not C.)
>
But you can define your own string type:
   type My_String is array (whatever range <>) of characters;

It will have all the features of String, including concatenation, slices and literals.

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