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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com> writes:

> While bounded vs. unbounded strikes me as a reasonable distinction, I'm
> not at all convinced that two separate string classes are necessary to
> accomplish it. I see nothing here that can't be accomplished by single
> class with a parameter specifying its bound (or lack thereof). 

What would be the gain for the end user ?

Of course in an implementation point of view both can certainly share lot of
code (this is the case for GNAT).

Pascal.

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