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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:13:00 +0200
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:39:27 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Slices don't make sense for Maps, since the items are not ordered.

Most useful maps are. And you couldn't iterate an unordered map anyway.

Anyway, Ada 2012 indices have are no substitute to arrays. Arrays require
no pointers, need not to be by-reference themselves, etc. Granted, I never
tried it, but I honestly doubt it were possible to emulate say Integer
array with Ada 2012 indexing and implicit dereferencing kludges, even
without slices. And struggling with compiler messages would certainly be a
hell.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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