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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
Date: 26 Sep 2003 07:40:12 +0200
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Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> writes:

> The ACT people added a Aux child (I think that's the name), which
> provides a function to return the underlying String_Access.  This is how
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded should have been designed in the first place.

I disagree. This is very dangerous as you get a pointer to a controlled
object, so it is not safe and Ada is always on the safe side.

Pascal.

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