Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Feb 8, 1:20 pm, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> And anyway, slices as L-values don't really work:
>
>     X : String := "abc";
>
>     X (2..2) := "xxx";
>
> One might expect X = "axxxc",

One *what*??  One Perl programmer???

Really, I don't expect that anyone who understands Ada is going to get
this wrong.  Programmers who haven't yet learned the language may not
understand it, but that's probably true of *any* feature of the
language, except perhaps for this:

procedure Main_Program is
begin
   null;
end Main_Program;

Like most of the other posters here, I find slices very useful.  Also,
I don't have a particular problem using them, on both sides of ":=".
I don't think I get them wrong any more than I get anything else
wrong.

                                    -- Adam