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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/07
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In article <slrn8eqva9.8gf.eedelman@tekno.helsinki.fi>,
  eedelman@rock.helsinki.no-sp�mm.fi (Erik Edelmann) wrote:
> Perhaps I'm just as stoopid as the Fortran comittee, but I
> really don't
> see what is so great about that code.  What if you want to
> normalize a
> vector with 10 elements instead of 3, for example?


It is trivial in Ada to handle variable sized arrays, the
example given (i.e. the code you quote) would be expected
to handle variable sized arrays in normal usage (i.e. it
is possible, but unusual, to write the type declarations
so that it was restricted to one particular size).


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