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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:15:50 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> Actually, slices are one of the least useful features of Ada.
> I wouldn't mind (much) if they didn't exist in the first place.

But only if the language provided means to have user-defined ones. Which is
far from trivial. You need a lot of related types to describe slices
themselves and indicator sets (ranges). Plus you have to provide means to
determine if subarrays overlap in order to implement assignment in a safe
way. And user-defined assignment itself need to be properly done (syntax,
referential semantics of function results etc.)

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