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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Stumbling over arrays.(A bit of a ramble. Read if your bored.)
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Caffeine Junky <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:
: So, I'm looking for suggestions on excercises I can do to help me really
: internalize Ada's view of Arrays(generic, Strings, etc...). I can use
: Arrays right now, but for me it's more a process of reading the compiler
: messages and making adjustments to the array declaration. Sort of like
: playing "Whack a mole."

do these ring a bell:
component type
unconstrained
constrained
anonymous
bound
slice
"array attributes"

and then later:
passed by reference
passed by copy
?

There is a section on arrays in
http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php

-- georg