Re: Easy question about Character manipulation

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> It has been suggested before so let me emphasis: use
>> size: Integer := 10;
>
> Let me emphasize:
>
> Size : constant := 10;
>
> There's no reason for Size to be an object, much less a variable.

I agree that it should probably be constant, but why not give it a type,
as in:

    Size : constant Integer := 10;

I think named numbers are a kludge, and should usually be avoided.

And then we have:

> emptySpaces : array (1..size) of Character := "0123456789";
> textLine : array (1..size * 3) of Character;

If Size is a named number, the index type of these arrays defaults to
Integer -- another language kludge.

Of course, the original poster wanted plain old "String", so all this is
irrelevant to that question.

- Bob