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David Starner wrote:
> But Ada can do something about that. For this to be equivalent, you'd have
> to be asking for Ada to always return 0 or A(A'First) if you used an index
> out of range. 

No, because in this case there is always a valid result to return,
since the results are merely unspecified (i.e., chosen from a legal
set of possible outcomes). Why do we want the compiler to pick an
arbitrary value instead of specifying which one it picks?