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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 16 Sep 2004 20:43:41 +0200
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> > But of course this would be :
> > 
> >    function "+" (Str : in String) 
> >      return Unbounded_String 
> >      renames To_Unbounded_String;
> > 
> >    X : constant Ragged := (+"1", +"12", +"13");
> > 
> > I did not say that it is perfect, but yet far better than your example :)
> 
> It is disgusting! (:-)) 

I know there is a smiley :) But nevertheless...

> What goal this "solution" achieves? To save keystrokes?

No not only. In this case it makes the code easier to read IMHO. I have (and
found this in other piece of code too) often used:

    function "+" (Str : in String) 
      return Unbounded_String 
      renames To_Unbounded_String;

    function "-" (Str : in Unbounded_String) 
      return String 
      renames To_String;

> Is it Ada or C++? (:-))

Renamings ? Ada definitly :)

Pascal.

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