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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: coding 'Output
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:45:17 +0100
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:nasQa.56566$N7.7193@sccrnsc03...

> What's the best way to do something like X'Output when
> type X only has part of the story?  Say "type X is array ..."
> but X is an array of sampled signal and there's an
> associated sampling rate etc.  Making
>    type X (Rate : Positive; Length : Positive) is
>       record
>          Data : Data_Array(1 .. Length);
> would require slice assignments to/from Data and Data is
> typically large, so that's not a good solution.

Why is this (putting the array and other info into a record type) not a good
solution? What have large slices got to do with it?

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