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From: Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:20:02 +0200
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Once again you are trying to escape the problem...
> We are not discussing the value of a map. We are not
> debating it either.
> 
> A map *is* most valuable. A map is *not* a vector.
> Sometimes you *need* a vector. A vector is *not* a convenient
> replacement for a map in C++.
> 
> And of course there are maps for Ada, but this is OT.


OK, one can use a vector then. And as I said in other messages, it is 
not difficult to define an array that takes arbitrary signed ranges, but 
this does not make much sense in C++.


In other words, the direct equivalent of your array is probably 
valarray/vector, ignoring the signed ranges.


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Ioannis Vranos

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