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From: mheaney@on2.com (Matthew Heaney)
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Subject: Re: Charles: arrays vs. vector
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porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) wrote in message news:<3dd2709b$0$299$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>...
> Why Charles has both arrays and vectors? Why not one package
> and one type for both?

They are different abstractions.

The vector is a container, implemented as an array, but its
implementation is otherwise private.

The array stuff was intended as a generalization of the Ada.Strings.*
packages, to work for any kind of element type.  It's sort of
experimental.

Actually, my immediate plan is to create a vector-style container
whose element type is String, as a more efficient alternative to
Ada.Strings.Unbounded.

Use the vector, unless you have a compelling need otherwise.