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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Question from newbie
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:14:19 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2004-02-16, Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
>
>> 2. Why do you do this: type Str is array (Index) of Char;
>
> Isn't that very useful, if you only want the letters allowed by the
> type Char?

Of course it depends what you really try to do, but to me it sound very
Cish. I would have used a string.


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