From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-17 16:22:03 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!cwi.nl!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Subject: Re: Array mappings Message-ID: Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) Nntp-Posting-Host: boring.cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam References: <3ckd14$1cqf@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <3csnqi$3ee@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3cv7t2$no2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 00:03:10 GMT Date: 1994-12-18T00:03:10+00:00 List-Id: In article <3cv7t2$no2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Ada 9X requires this support. Whether that requirement is justified > remains to be seen. > I think this came from suggestions out of the Ada Europe Numerics WG, strange enough. I think it is a non-issue; but I started with Algol 60, followed by Algol-68, and only after that came Fortran; and I did think they did arrays the wrong way. I know that after heavy requests CDC modified their Algol-68 compiler such that it could handle arrays both ways. I do not think the feature has been used so very much. The only time when it is really useful is when you want to interface to the large base of numerical libraries in Fortran. But as Robert says, C has the same problem (more actually). -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl