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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:45:48 +0000 (UTC)
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
 
: Now that you say it: True. Mind you, if space is a problem, you can always
: do it the C way:
: 
: String_1  : aliased String = "1";
: String_12 : aliased String = "12";
: String_13 : aliased String = "13";
: 
: type String_Access  is access all String;
: type Ragged is array (Integer range <>) of String_Access;
: X : constant Ragged :=
:    (  String_1'Access,
:       String_12'Access,
:       String_13'Access
:    );

for constants,

   X: constant Ragged := 
    ( new String'("1"),
    ...

does just as well, the allocations are performed by the compiler,
not at run time :-)



-- Georg