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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: [Spark] Converting Arrays
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:15:47 +0000 (UTC)
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* Rod Chapman wrote:
> You can pass the Length of the Path parameter as an addition "in"
> parameter.  e.g.
> 
>   procedure To_Fullname (S           : in     String;
>                          Path        :    out Fullname;
>                          Path_Length : in     Natural);
>   --# derives Path from S, Path_Length;
>   --# pre S'Length < Path_Length;
> 
> Then a caller simply does:
> 
>   To_Fullname (LS, P, P'Length);

I do not want to write C. ;-)