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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1fa85f3df5841ae1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Containers.Vectors - querying multiple elements References: <426e4c2b$0$7515$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:46:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.245.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1114742775 4.240.245.113 (Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:46:15 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:46:15 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10795 Date: 2005-04-29T02:46:15+00:00 List-Id: 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 26