Re: Ada.Containers.Vectors - querying multiple elements

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Duncan Sands wrote:

>    procedure Query_Elements
>        (Container   : in Vector;
>         First_Index : in Index_Type;
>         Last_Index  : in Extended_Index;
>         Process   : not null access procedure (Elements : in Element_Array));


> It would be good to have for both
> efficiency reasons and simple implementation of certain classes of algorithms.
> In my case I have a "divide and conquer" recursive algorithm which while it
> can be written using the current package, would be simpler to write if something
> like Query_Elements existed.

Couldn't you use Cursors,

  here: Cursor := find_or_something(container, ...);
  there: constant Cursor := find_or_something(container, ...);

  while here /= there loop
     ...
     next(here);
  end loop;


-- Georg