Re: In Ada, is it possible to print an array on the screen without a loop?

Re: In Ada, is it possible to print an array on the screen without a loop?

[John Herro]

"SG" <sg@money.com> writes:
> In ada, is it possible to print an array
> on the screen without a loop?

Text_IO.Put_Line(
     "Of course! ... if the array happens to be a string! :-)  ");
-- ...but in general, I think the answer is no.

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Re: In Ada, is it possible to print an array on the screen without a loop?

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

"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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Re: In ada, is it possible to print an array on the screen whithout a loop?

[Roy Grimm]

SG wrote:
> 
> In ada, is it possible to print an array on the screen whithout a loop?

In Ada, anything is possible.  However, I'm assuming you are asking if
there is native support in the language for printing arrays.  The only
native support for printing any kind of array is if it happens to be an
array of characters, i.e. a string.  Other than that, you have to
manufacture your own print routine from the existing language
components, i.e. using a loop.

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