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Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 01:27:54 UTC+2, Nasser M. Abbasi a =E9crit=A0:

> In Fortran, I can just write V**2, where V is a vector. In Ada,
> I can&#39;t do that. Since ** is not defined on this array type
> and this number type.
>=20
> I would have to write a loop to iterate over V and do V(I)**2 on
> each element.
>=20
> This for me, is a step backward. This is how Fortran77 was.

Interesting example... How often do you do need that, frankly ?
The standard is there for... standard operations, like a * v (a is a number=
).
There are always things you might feel it is missing.
For instance the shortcuts "and then" and "or else" are missing in Fortran,=
 and to my opinion it is something more cumbersome than the lack of v**2 in=
 Ada.

G.