From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Containers.Vectors - querying multiple elements
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:46:15 GMT
Date: 2005-04-29T02:46:15+00:00 [thread overview]
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Duncan Sands wrote:
> When you have a container that is an extensible array, wanting to be
> able to directly access slices of it as an array seems normal (and
> useful) to me. I guess the point is that Vector is not an extensible
> array - the designers chose a more abstract design. Calling it "Vector"
> is just asking for confusion about what it is intended to be IMHO.
I agree about the name. To further complicate matters, there's a type
Vector in the matrix-math packages, violating a long-standing convention
that the standard packages are use-friendly, even in combination.
--
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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2005-04-26 11:43 Ada.Containers.Vectors - querying multiple elements Duncan Sands
2005-04-26 14:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-04-26 14:39 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-26 15:44 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-04-26 16:05 ` Duncan Sands
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2005-04-26 16:59 ` Duncan Sands
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2005-04-26 17:08 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-26 18:17 ` Martin Dowie
2005-04-26 18:48 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-26 18:59 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-26 19:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-04-26 20:34 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-26 21:47 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-04-26 23:21 ` Marius Amado Alves
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2005-04-27 8:15 ` Duncan Sands
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2005-04-27 11:49 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-04-28 0:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-28 7:09 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-27 11:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-04-27 11:57 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-28 14:17 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-27 4:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-27 7:21 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-28 2:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-28 7:15 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-28 12:27 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-04-28 13:18 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-04-28 13:53 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-29 2:46 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2005-04-29 18:22 ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-28 7:18 ` Duncan Sands
2005-04-28 0:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-28 3:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-28 20:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-29 2:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-29 18:34 ` Robert A Duff
2005-04-29 20:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-29 20:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-30 4:06 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-04-29 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-04-29 20:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-04-30 9:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-05-02 3:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-05-02 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-05-02 18:57 ` Robert A Duff
2005-05-03 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-05-03 23:30 ` Robert A Duff
2005-05-05 10:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-05-07 1:20 ` Matthew Heaney
2005-05-07 7:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2005-04-26 16:00 ` Duncan Sands
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