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From: khostelley@yahoo.com (Kevin Hostelley)
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Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector
Date: 5 May 2004 06:21:39 -0700
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"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in message > > I am with Alexander and Marius on this.

> > "Vector" is inaccurate and misleading for this use.
> > An Ada standard should not endorse sloppy terminology.
> 
> 1) "Vector" for better or worse, is now a widely accepted term for this type
> of container;

IMO, the only time that a widely accepted (although inaccurate) term
should be used is if any other term you use would cause confusion.  I
don't think any programmer would have a problem understanding
"Unbounded_Array".


My $.02

Kevin Hostelley
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