Re: Prefix to 'ACCESS must either statically match... But why?

["James S. Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

"Wojtek Narczynski" <wojtek@power.com.pl> wrote in message
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> "James S. Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> > Since this is a parameter array, why not merely return an array of
> > index pairs? The index pairs can index the beginning and end of
> > each array slice.
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> That's rigth! I haven't thought about it. Thanks!
>
> > The idea of returning a set of "pointers" to pieces of an array is
> > very common in C
>
> Please note that an access to array slice is by no means less safe
> than an access to the whole array. Thus I wish Ada had them.
>

I agree that an access to an array slice is just as safe.
I was merely trying to help you learn the Ada approach to this
kind of a problem. I was trying to explain why the C and Ada
approaches are different.

Jim Rogers