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From: Brooks Moses <bmoses-nospam@cits1.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:08:24 -0700
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Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> Brooks Moses wrote:
>>    leftface = cell - 1;
>>    rightface = cell;
>>
>>According your explanation those last two commands, while making logical 
>>sense, would throw a type-mismatch error.  How easy is that to "fix"?
> 
> One solution is subtypes, as Jim showed. For cases where you don't want 
> subtypes, there is explicit type conversion:
> 
>       leftface := nfaces(cell - 1);
>       rightface := nfaces(cell);

Thanks to you both.  This does look like a useful language feature, 
indeed, particularly with the subtypes.

- Brooks


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