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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada_Arrays Project
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M?rio Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
:> > Anybody besides me foresees the great usefulness of Ada_Arrays?
:> No, but please explain why you find it useful :-)
: 
: Standard fixed, bounded and unbounded arrays of *any* element type
: sounds yummy to me.

For a start, you could turn the non-Character items into satellite
data orbitting a Character value?


-- Georg