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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
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On 3 Pa , 02:20, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@acm.nospam.org> wrote:

> But since C/++ uses reference semantics, while Ada uses value semantics,
> this kind of mess is needed to get something in the C/++ spirit.

Let's leave C++ aside then.

Imagine I haven an *array* of Person(s) and I do this:

Swap (People (X).Salary, People (Y).Salary);

This is Ada.

(is it value semantics for you, btw?)

Now I want to do the same with vector.

In other words, I want to use Ada in the Ada spirit.
What kind of mess do you recommend to achieve it?

If we realize that vector is a generalization of array, is it
revolutionary to expect that the common functionality should have
common interface?

The C++ example was just... an example. I'm sorry if it distracted you
from the real issue.

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com