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In article <87k7vkxkdw.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> "Mark Lundquist" <no.spam@getalife.com> writes:
> 
>>> What about a generic version of To and From which can handle arrays
>>> with different index types?
>>
>> Interesting idea, but I doubt if it would be useful enough to be justified.
>> A list abstraction of this sort is unbounded, and since the only reason you
>> would convert To it from one of these things with a non-integer index type
>> would be to convert From the list back to it again, you're not going to be
>> adding or deleting elements...
> 
> Some people like to have different integer types for different things.

Absolutely !!!