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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> a �crit dans le message news:
3EDEA840.6020908@attbi.com...
> The reason that the boolean operations are predefined for arrays is that
> it would be very difficult for a compiler to figure out the
> optimizations to use bit-wise operations on words otherwise.

My memory is that boolean array operations are there because
the requirements called for a functionality equivalent to Pascal's sets

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