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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array?
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dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) writes:

>>Kumano-san states the mathematical argument very nicely
>>here. Personally I tend to agree with this point of view.
>
> Yes, however analogy is not complete in Ada. At least three things
> spoil this nice equivalence. For arrays one can do:
>
> 1. Result assignment.  Mapping (Input) := Output

This notation is not completely unusual in mathematical circles
nowadays, even among mathematicians who haven't been influenced much
by programming languages.