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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:29:51 +0100
From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Bob,

> OK, I guess I shouldn't have said "least useful".  I should have
> said that it's easy enough to work around the lack of this
> feature.  In my experience, almost all slices are of
> type String.  And almost all are R-values.  So a function:
> 
>     function Slice (S: String; First: Positive; Last: Natural) return String;

I beg to disagree strongly to that too :)

I have lot of code like this one:

   S (A .. B) := R (C .. D);

or

   S (A .. B) := V;

I would say that slices are really what make life easier in Ada compared
to other languages in many ways.

Pascal.

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