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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada functions versus arrays (i.e. () vs [] )
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Date: 6 Mar 90 19:13:21 GMT
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I think the main reason that Ada does not use [] for array
indexing is that symbols like () are far easier to read
than using letters like C does. Of course Ada could have
used something like (..) as Pascal permit, but it feels
clumsy. And the flexibility aspect of being able to switch
between an array and a function is not to be disregarded.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se