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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.202.117.18 with SMTP id q18mr2666143oic.80.1504914915938; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.228.193 with SMTP id o184mr218055ith.9.1504914915905; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.unit0.net!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!127no962036itw.0!news-out.google.com!p6ni1959itp.0!nntp.google.com!127no962033itw.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.255.112.230; posting-account=NT38RwoAAAB4_OO_uw8yHtNaa9Hkjukk NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.255.112.230 References: <4dc188de-802b-41ad-9cdd-b8246eb9a1c7@googlegroups.com> <47cc6474-8b75-4644-92d0-bd1f694c20e7@googlegroups.com> <338b355a-dee4-4c73-b00e-09d9a8430fb1@googlegroups.com> <21692daf-5a52-43f0-a72a-d79e6a7dcc9f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9oYW4gU8O2ZGVybGluZCDDhXN0csO2bQ==?= Injection-Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:55:15 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Body-CRC: 1861005374 X-Received-Bytes: 2320 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47990 Date: 2017-09-08T16:55:15-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, September 8, 2017 at 11:46:28 PM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > I am for adding positional array element access. But it must have a > clearly distinct syntax. E.g. either by using square brackets: > > A [Position] I like that! Type safety: for I in Ordinal_Number range A'Ordinal_Range loop ... (A [I] + B [I]) * C [I] / (D [I] ** E (E'First + Integer (I))) ... end loop; for I in Ordinal_Number range A'Ordinal_First .. A'Ordinal_Last loop ... (A [I] + B [I]) * C [I] / (D [I] ** E (E'First + Integer (I))) ... end loop;