"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> a �crit dans le message de news:3F7AC5B0.9080108@noplace.com...
> O.K. But my question remains, "Does anybody use them in *practice*?"
> When I've needed a record field for something like Person_Name and
> wanted some fixed allocation on it, I use a String and if/when I needed
> to know where the string stopped, I use a "Last_Non_Blank ()" function.
> But in most of the instances where I need something like this, I just
> jump to Unbounded_String and am done with it.
>
Maybe you missed the point that you have *different* types for Person_Name
and Person_Address.

Of course, you could use types derived from strings. And keep the current length in
an integer rather looking for a space, so you'll have to pack that into a record.
While we're at it, it would be nice to have a discriminant to parameterize the
maximum length... Well, at that point, you are just rewriting Bounded_Strings.
(except for the discriminant in place of the generic parameter).

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