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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
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In article <wccadeiglef.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:

>> Array slicing is a wonderfully useful feature.  I use this feature in almost
>> every program of mine.
> 
> Really!?  I think of array slicing as a pretty minor feature of Ada,
> which causes a lot of trouble for compiler writers, that could be
> dispensed with.  After all, you could write a function that grabs those
> components.
> 
> I'm thinking particularly of slices as L-values.  Do you ever use that?

Yes, although in a minority of cases.