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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:05:24 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 8, 1:20=A0pm, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> And anyway, slices as L-values don't really work:
>
> =A0 =A0 X : String :=3D "abc";
>
> =A0 =A0 X (2..2) :=3D "xxx";
>
> One might expect X =3D "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 ":=3D".
I don't think I get them wrong any more than I get anything else
wrong.

                                    -- Adam