From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffc9e2fe760c58fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.tiscali.de!not-for-mail From: Wilhelm Spickermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Records that could be arrays Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:34:11 +0100 Organization: Tiscali Germany Usenet Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p83.129.29.178.tisdip.tiscali.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ulysses.news.tiscali.de 1140993252 98097 83.129.29.178 (26 Feb 2006 22:34:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:34:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3175 Date: 2006-02-26T23:34:11+01:00 List-Id: Hi, Stephen Leake wrote: > Wilhelm Spickermann > writes: > >> This becomes also visible in the missing loop statements in >> typical polar coordinate operations. And it would be rather >> unusual for an array to have a special equality definition > > Perhaps it is "unusual" in your experience because you are > overly restrictive in using arrays for such types. > Thats right; it's no argument, I shouldn't have added the last sentence. It's just an implication of my preferences of using records for such structures. Wilhelm