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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/28
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Edwin Guenthner a �crit dans le message
<7g6c5v$8tg$2@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>...
>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.

The trouble is that arrays are *implicit* classes. AFAIK, there is no
way to redefine a method for stuff[], only for stuff.
Therefore, you must package your array into a class. But if the user
of stuff wants to declare a stuff[], there is nothing you can do.
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