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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Efficient io of arbitrary binary data.
Date: 1996/09/14
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references: <3239B3B2.1AE4@cray.com> <1996Sep14.112929.1@eisner>
organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1996-09-14T00:00:00+00:00
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Brian said

"> I considering how this program could be written in Ada (part of
> an attempt to become Ada literate in an Ada hostile environment)
> I a puzzled.  The approaches which Ada seems to allow all require
> much more copying of data as I am not allowed to return a reference
> to a slice of an array I can only return the slice itself."

Well seeing as you have neither slices nor references to slices in C,
it is hardly possible that this limitation is a significant one! DOn't
assume that because you are writing in Ada, you *have* to use all its
features!