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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: In Ada,
 is it possible to print an array on the screen without a loop?
Date: 1997/07/10
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Date: 1997-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
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"SG" <sg@money.com> writes:
> In ada, is it possible to print an array
> on the screen without a loop?

johnherro@aol.com (John Herro) writes:
>Text_IO.Put_Line(
>     "Of course! ... if the array happens to be a string! :-)  ");
>-- ...but in general, I think the answer is no.

Clearly there has to be a loop _somewhere_, but this answer is somewhat
misleading.  It doesn't follow that _SG_ has to write the loop.

It is possible to write a generic procedure, and then SG just has to
instantiate it once.  The only reason I've never bothered to do this
is that there are a lot of issues in formatting an array that don't
arise in formatting a single item.
-- 
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Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.