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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:53:14 +0000 (UTC)
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Kevin Hostelley <khostelley@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
: IMO, the only time that a widely accepted (although inaccurate) term
: should be used is if any other term you use would cause confusion.  I
: don't think any programmer would have a problem understanding
: "Unbounded_Array".
 
: My $.02

Another 2 cent: the `v' in vector is much closer in appearance to
the '<' and '>' found in cool languages. The 'U' in Unbounded_Array
looks similar to the boring '(' and ')' in Ada.  :->

-- Georg