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From: Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:34:56 +0000
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
[snip]
> OK, I recognise that some (probably all) Ada features provide strong 
> guarantees, but it is certain that they can get in the way of the 
> programmer.
> 
> 
> The index being a constant, can be used in the style array(100-i)= 
> array(i);
> 

I think this is intended as a question.  If so, the answer is "of 
course".  The fact that i is a constant doesn't stop you using it in 
expressions or assigning it to things, it just stops you changing it.

Peter