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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-04 05:10:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F7EB89A.4070809@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Counter-proposal for variable arrays References: <3F739C1D.4030907@attbi.com> <3F78E850.8010401@comcast.net> <3F797748.3000203@noplace.com> <834clb.uan1.ln@skymaster> <3F79EF18.7060600@comcast.net> <3F7B1076.8060106@comcast.net> <5mknnv4u96qqudrt4bd8n4t1cljp2fjlp8@4ax.com> <1065215180.95094@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:10:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.65.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1065269416 165.247.65.101 (Sat, 04 Oct 2003 05:10:16 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 05:10:16 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:211 Date: 2003-10-04T12:10:16+00:00 List-Id: But here is a really important thing for people to notice: Most programmers make little/no distinction between the language and the libraries they get with their compiler. Effectively, its the same thing. Especially if the language declares some library to be officialy a part of the language (such as Ada does with Text_IO.) Knowing that people won't make that distinction is important when discussing what should be "Part of Ada". MDC Pascal Obry wrote: > > > You are confusiong the language and the libraries. C++ has no vector, no > array not even strings, just pointers to chunk of memories. > > Ada has array which support 'first 'last 'length 'range slice and more. > > If we count libraries why not say then that Ada or C++ has matrix support or > database support... !!!! > > Pascal. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================