From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <413e2fbd$0$30586$626a14ce@news.free.fr> <2cR0d.1623$IO5.1267@trndny04> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:19:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.18.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1095056343 138.217.18.112 (Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:19:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:19:03 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3657 Date: 2004-09-13T06:19:03+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Pascal Obry wrote: > > You can't have C++ strings object everyware. A lot of function are built > > using > > char* in the spec. > > In which case you do your work in std::string or std::stringstream and then > obtain a char * from the object and use it. Also ACT have equipped a child package of Unbounded_String to return a pointer to the underlying string. This makes C++ and Ada look more alike. Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au