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From: Edwin Guenthner <s_guenth@studsun1.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/28
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Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>
> But, as I noted in a previous message, this doesn't work if A and B
> are two-dimensional arrays. You should then write:

Pardon? There is now law in Java that says:
you are not allowed to write a clone method which will give you a deep
copy of a whole array. 

You have to iterate over all fields - but you should hide this detail 
from your user.