Re: Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada)

In article <438582ab_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> I would expect those string packages (and especially the string IO
>> packages) would use operating system facilities in some
>> implementations.
>> The underlying operating system calls might not be symmetric at all.
>> The bodies might not even be written in Ada.
>
> They could always be 'defined' as proposed by Steve but the implementation
> might use 'magic' to make it happen.

I think magic is typically the least reliable part of an implementation.
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