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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
Date: 8 Dec 1994 05:51:34 -0500
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Keith, the array conversion case is really not a special one. In general
an array conversion may involve a massive and possibly complex copy, and
most compilers will just generate a loop to do the copy, which handles
all possible cases, including the swapping of indices.