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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: reverse Integer'image(someString);
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:41:35 +0200
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Bj�rn Lundin a �crit :
>> There was 2 solutions:
>>
>>    Str : constant String := "...";
>>
>> or
>>
>>    Str : String (1 .. 3) := "...";
>>
And the work-around was:
    Const_Str : constant String := "...";
    Str : String (Const_Str'Range) := Const_Str;

So the feature was, in fact, actually available.

I think the authors of Ada83 thought that they should avoid having to 
declare the bounds for:
    Mess: constant String (1..7) := "Message";

and didn't realize it was useful for variables too.

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