Re: initialize an array (1-D) at elaboration using an expression based on the index?

["(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 31/10/2010 20:00, in article
d779c161-3199-45ca-87ae-d0501c74e219@26g2000yqv.googlegroups.com, "Shark8"
<onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:

>> ... having been raised on Algol-W I am delighted to see them come back.
>> 
>> Is it their unfamiliarity that disturbs you?
> 
> No, not so much.
> I don't see how they are [strictly-speaking] necessary, given that we
> have declare-blocks (which can be arbitrarily-nested).

"Necessary" is not a valid criterion for anything more human-oriented than a
Turing machine. Remember that Ada views programming, above all, as a human
activity.

> Granted, they would make it a lot less verbose in many cases. {BTW, if
> we're going to allow if/then statements inside expressions &
> assignments/initializations then what's keeping us from using case-
> statements too?}

Absolutely nothing.
Algol W and Ada 2012 (I'm delighted to see) have both.

-- 
Bill Findlay
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