Re: Nested declares, constant size arrays and clarity

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> I never use Unbounded_String for parsing. The input line buffer can be
> easily reused to accommodate varying strings. The right line boundary would
> be not S'Last, but some variable <= S'Last. Alternatively a string slice
> can be passed down to the parser. Something like that would be necessary to
> do anyway to strip LF/CRs.

Except when you have a line longer than S'Length. Better is to use 
function Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (Ada 07, but easily implemented in earlier 
versions; my seminal paper on the subject was in Ada 83 and published in 
  1989) and always have a string of exactly the right length.

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Jeff Carter
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