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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:36:52 -0500
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Niklas Holsti wrote:

> Another solution -- which perhaps you have considered -- is to use a 
> generic package to define row and matrix types:
> 
>     generic Size : Positive;
>     package Matrices
>     is
>        type Row is array (1 .. Size) of Float;
>        type Matrix is array (1 .. Size) of Row;
>     end Matrices;
> 
> However, this will probably force some other parts of your code to 
> become generic, too, parametrized either by a Size, or by an instance of 
> Matrices.
> 

Actually I hadn't considered this, but such an approach might work well for
me. I'll have to consider it more.

Thanks!

Peter