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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> Really!?  I think of array slicing as a pretty minor feature of Ada,
> which causes a lot of trouble for compiler writers, that could be
> dispensed with.  After all, you could write a function that grabs those
> components.

> I'm thinking particularly of slices as L-values.  Do you ever use that?

Usually I pass slices of arrays as parameters to procedures and functions.
For example Ada.Strings.Fixed would be far less convenient without the
ability to pass part of an array to a procedure or function.  As for
L-values I assume you mean something like

x(1..80) := (others => y);
?
If so, I use slices less often for that purpose.