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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:31:52 GMT, Matthew Heaney
> <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >The problem with Ada.Strings.Unbounded is that to do anything useful
> >with it requires a conversion to type String, which is grossly
> >inefficient, not to mention awkward.
> 
> Yes, but the problem is deeper - unbounded string are not arrays.

That's true of the C++ std::string.  Yet that class manages to have a
c_str() member function that does return an array.