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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:07:18 +0000 (UTC)
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
: This is why I wrote about incorrectness. IF Ada's strings were designed as
: a set of related types, then "..." literals could be ones of/convertible to
: Unbounded_String and so an initialized ragged array would be no problem,
: instead of horrific:
: 
: type Ragged is array (Integer range <>) of Unbounded_String;
: X : constant Ragged :=
:    (  To_Unbounded_String ("1"),
:       To_Unbounded_String ("12"),
:       To_Unbounded_String ("13")
:    );

Is it really a good idea to sprinkle source code with unnamed
string values? (No matter in what language.) If all of them are
isolated in some module(s), where's the problem. Is it an
aesthetical problem to have to use Ada's verbosity with strings?


-- Georg