Re: Ada.Bounded_Strings

"Adam Beneschan" <adam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Again, this doesn't sound reasonable in the context of the sort of
"business applications" that I used to work on in COBOL. For other
types of applications, it's probably OK, or Ada.Strings.Unbounded may
be best. The reason I'm even thinking about all this is that I had
been hoping for a number of years now that Ada would be able to make
inroads into "business" applications and maybe be seen as an
alternative to COBOL, and I'm a bit disappointed that, AFAIK, nothing
or very little has happened in that arena. Not that I think
Ada.Strings.Bounded is a major reason for this, or that providing a
better string-handling facility would help at all. (shrug)

I think that the inability to write a package that "naturally" uses literals
(and possibly indexing and slicing) for a private type are also large
impediments. (Worse, the current string packages cannot be retrofitted to
use such a capability even if it was added to Ada, lessening the possibility
of doing that.)

Net-net, I think the string packages are a disaster: just good enough to
prevent them from being properly replaced, but not good enough to use in a
natural way. (And Ada doesn't do anything useful to support UTF-8, which
doesn't help matters any.)

Randy.


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