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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and string literals
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> That's what "+" is for:

Yeah, I use that technique sometimes.  But it feels more like
a "workaround" than a "technique".

> I would be _very_ nice if that definition of "+" was in Ada.Strings
> somewhere.

It would be even nicer if you could declare an array-of-String.

- Bob