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Subject: Re: how to copy complete column (or row) of matrix to another?
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Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48053
Date: 2017-09-12T05:57:05-07:00
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I agree that multi-dimensional array slices should be supported. One of the=
 tenet's of Ada is to leave the implementation of things up to the compiler=
, because it knows how best to do it, e.g. parameter passing.

I asked about it here, https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.ada/L9XiRr=
jm3B0/cXfKlQ9-AwAJ and the response was, it's not going to happen due to a =
slice being a name as Randy mentions, but it's not a request to speed up th=
e assignment, it's just syntactic sugar to aid readability, another of Ada'=
s tenets.

Even the AARM says so here, http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12aarm/html/A=
A-4-1-2.html see 8.b.