Re: Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings)

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> writes:

> Ted Dennison wrote:
> > You're starting to get at my point here. Most of the "Ada's support for
> > XXX sucks" folks come from the perspective of trying to use techniques
> > designed around the features (and failings) of another language in Ada,
> > rather than from a sober analysis of the full benefits and drawbacks of
> > the supporting Ada features. If I were a betting man, I'd wager that
> > this approach occured to you because you are used to using this
> > (unusual) construct from a lanugage that makes it easy, and it would not
> > have occurred at all in the code of a "native" Ada person.
> > 
> This is exactly the situation when you watch a native C programmer try
> to null terminate Ada strings and complain that there is no support in
> the language for null terminated string processing. ...

Yeah, but the original poster wasn't asking for nul-terminated strings
-- he was asking for strings that can change their length.  He said he
wanted no type declarations or function calls, but I presume he really
meant he wanted a concise notation.

This was a pretty reasonable thing to ask for -- varying length strings
with concise notation.  So I think it's unfair to accuse him of not
knowing the One True Glorious Ada Way.

- Bob