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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com writes:
>> What do you miss with unconstrained types? They don't need gc....
>> String is just another unconstrained array type.
>
> It gets messier when the data contains possibly-circular references to
> other data.

Right: "spaghetti data". Again, why is spaghetti data acceptable but 
spaghetti code not acceptable? Data with random references to other data is 
no more structured than code full of gotos. We never allow the latter, why 
allow the former??

                            Randy.