Re: Containers - nontrivial element access

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:37:53 -0700, Matthew Heaney wrote:

> On Oct 3, 4:21 pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> wrote:
>>
> My reason for saying that the C++ vector *is* a like an array, and the
> Ada vector is *not* like an array, is that in C++ the vector is
> guaranteed to be implemented as contiguous array of memory.  There is
> a separate container (a deque) that has time and space semantics
> different from a vector.

[ Does RM require contiguous allocation of arrays? I am not sure.]

Anyway, Robert Duff has already expressed what I meant in another
subthread:

"Vector and array are basically the same
thing (except vectors can grow), and it's annoying that you have to use
different syntax to deal with them.

In Ada, "array" is built in, and has all kinds of cool features
(aggregates, with full-coverage checking, for example).
It's annoying that vectors can't have all of those features."

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de