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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:24:09 -0700
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"Charmed Snark" <snark@cogeco.ca> wrote in message 
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>
> I am making big use of these containers in the rewrite of
> my basic interpreter project. >

I looked at the Ada 2005 LRM, Containers.Vectors for example, and And I have 
small question

http://www.adaic.org/standards/05rm/html/RM-A-18-2.html

Given this below

function Element (Container : Vector;
                  Index     : Index_Type)
   return Element_Type;


Then to get the element at index 5, one needs to write something like 
Element(V,5).

Is there a way to redefine this so one need to only write V(5) ? because If 
I have large equations, it is more clear to write V(i) than Element(V,i) 
everywhere? Did you find this "longer" syntax an issue for you?

I have not used Containers before. But the list of functions looks 
impressive.

ps. is your interpreter project somewhere on the net to look at?

thanks,
--Nasser