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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Array of Variant Records Question...
Date: 1999/09/09
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In article <37d74dea@eeyore.callnetuk.com>,
  "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> As I suggested in a post a few months ago, such an array type
would be easy
> to add to Ada's existing syntax, easy and efficient to
implement (as an
> array of pointers plus a ragged sequence of objects,
internally), and very
> bloody useful, pardon the language. (It would have solved
Bruce's problem in
> a trice.)


Not at *all* easy to implement, the use of implicit pointers
is unacceptable for many reasons, and it is not at all easy
to see how to implement it without the use of implicit pointers.
I think this is NOT something you are likely to see in any
future revision of the language.


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