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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:49:59 +0000 (UTC)
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>>     Integer_IO.Get(Line(Last+1 .. Line'last), V(i), Last);
>...
>I'd still prefer all strings start at 1, and I'd do parsing of
>a text stream of integers in a different way (keep track
>of current position without using slices at all).
  I wouldn't usually parse a text stream of integers like that
either, but it's a very short example, using a routine in the
standard library.

  In general, the index of a found item in an array search is more
helpful than the offset.  For instance,
  function Find_Biggest(X : in Array_Type) return Index_Type;
leads to a cleaner recursive (or multitasking) divide-and-conquer
routine than returning an offset into the array.  The offset is
a means to the end, while the index is the end itself, and you can't
return the index if you don't know the X'first.