Re: Adding "()" operator to Ada 200X

[mheaney@on2.com (Matthew Heaney)]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:<1325634.ddflWlv0t0@linux1.krischik.com>...
> 
> I agree with your point and put my vote in favour of the O.P.: An array
> operator would make collection classes much nicer.

The problem is what type to return.  In C++ I do this:

  T& operator[]();
  const T& operator[]() const;

The operator returns a reference to T.  There are no reference types
in Ada, so it's not obvious how the language would be able to provide
it.