Re: string literals

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

"but don't want to use [the package with character literals]"

why on earth not? this is what use is for! There is a certain style of
Ada question that goes like:

   How do I do X without using Y

where Y is exactly the feature intended to support X. Most odd!

If you are worried that the use clause would clutter up the name space, a
nice way of doing things is to put the definition of the character type 
into a nested package:

   package Stuff is
      ...
      package Char_Type_Package is
         type Char_Type is ( ....
      end Char_Type_Package;
   end Stuff;

now you can just say use Stuff.Char_Type_Package and you have access to the
literals.