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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ae67f75abbc71211 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-25 02:14:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!dns.phoenix-ag.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array? Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: <9ff447f2.0202241719.446bf17b@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de X-Trace: news.uni-stuttgart.de 1014632067 13147 129.69.118.32 (25 Feb 2002 10:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:14:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (IRIX/6.5 (IP22)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20355 Date: 2002-02-25T10:14:27+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > My understanding is that function parameters and array indices are > intentionally encoded with the same bracketing types to allow one > to be substituted for another in a subsequent version of a program. > A function might be more efficient for a very sparse array, even > though the logical construct is an array. This is an extremely welcome property, indeed. Ada again proves to tend to the practical side. -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)