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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal
Date: 1999/09/25
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In article <t74sgkys8h.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>,
  Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> wrote:
> I don't know, because I don't have the correct intuitions
about Ada.
> The more complicated version
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"more complicated" /= longer

Actually the C version is quite a bit more complex, because of
the rather peculiar rules about whether string pointers are
or are not constants, and about the issue of whether
"abc" == "abc" (in general of course the answer in C is no)

It looks simpler, but that can hide a lot of sins :-)


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