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 20:35, in article
3450508b-9f26-4f26-8cd1-70149ca113dc@b17g2000yqa.googlegroups.com, "Shark8"
<onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:

>> "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.
> 
> Hm, I disagree there. 'Necessary' is an extraordinarily valid
> criterion for precise-languages, and even precision within languages.
... 
> This relates, because we were discussing the design of languages
> (specifically Ada). If we were to throw in every idea that people had
> w/o regard to 'necessary' we would quickly have a mess of a language
> the result of which would make C++ look like Ada, comparatively. (That
> is to say, all hope of consistency would be lost.)

But this is a non sequitur. Saying that necessity is not a valid {I should
better have said "adequate"} criterion is is no way equivalent to saying
that that anything goes.  We are united in thinking that Ada should never
look like C++. I'm confident that there is no chance of that happening.

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk