From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd3a5ba6349a6060 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William Clodius Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada? Date: 1999/02/24 Message-ID: <36D42354.794B@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447944886 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7a72e6$g55$1@probity.mcc.ac.uk> <36C93BB4.1429@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <7afc1o$3mi$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7afttr$7v3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aganu$qsc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <36CC3AEA.59E2@lanl.gov> <7ai502$6an$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36CD8DBA.237C@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > So Ada does have some idioms that can duplicate part of the > functionality of FORALL, but it really would have been nice to add it > to Ada 95. Maybe next time. (I never really understood why it didn't > make it in. There is a trivial syntax change associated with it, but > compilers for low end machines could just treat it like a normal for > loop.) > - Minor note the examples Robert quotes for Ada can all be done in Fortran 90 without FORALL but with a slightly different syntax than required by ADA. DIfferences are that Fortran allows the triplet notation for index vectors, first value:maximumu value:increment, its array constructor uses (/.../) rather than (...), implied DO can be used for array construction, and it doesn't have an array concatonation operator (I assume that is the meaning of & in Ada). -- William B. Clodius Phone: (505)-665-9370 Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NIS-2 FAX: (505)-667-3815 PO Box 1663, MS-C323 Group office: (505)-667-5776 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Email: wclodius@lanl.gov