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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/27
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me@me a �crit dans le message <7g4av3$bgd@drn.newsguy.com>...
[good stuff about reference semantics deleted]
>To make A get its own value of the object B, one needs to be explicit
and
>write
>
>A = B.clone();
>
>(Assuming B supports the clone() method).
>
But, as I noted in a previous message, this doesn't work if A and B
are two-dimensional arrays. You should then write:
for (i=0; i<B.length; i++)
  A[i]=B[i].clone()
... unless A and B are tri-dimensional arrays, in which case you
should write:
  (etc, etc.)
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