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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Allocate an array of a record with a discriminant?
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"Joe" <sorry@no.email> writes:

> Basically, I want to create an array of English words. The following
> information will be given before the words are typed in, _but_ not before
> runtime:
> 
> - the maximum length of any one word (the Max_Length variable will contain
> it)

You could use Ada.Strings.Unbounded, and then you wouldn't care what the
max length is.

- Bob