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Le mardi 1 mai 2018 05:45:08 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:

> A cleaner approach imho is immutable data passed by reference (this is
> how most of functional programming works).  It's not really feasible to
> code in that style in Ada, as far as I can tell.  Aside from language
> issues, I think it's unfeasible without a gc, but maybe I'm wrong.

What do you miss with unconstrained types? They don't need gc.
Here is an example:
https://sourceforge.net/p/cbsg/code/HEAD/tree/corporate_bullshit.adb
String is just another unconstrained array type.