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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Thanks. I'm glad they're nailing it down; it seems to be a needless
> source of hard-to-spot errors, otherwise.

The fact that Ada allows strings to start at other than 1, depending on
where they came from, is a "needless source of hard-to-spot errors" even
in cases where it *is* nailed down.  Sigh.

- Bob