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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message 
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> Thanks for the link. Yes, I see this:
>
> "Essentially we are allowing a container to be "indexed" in the same way 
> as an array is indexed, with the key (or potentially various different key 
> types) being arbitrary. "
>
> http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai05s/ai05-0139-2.txt?rev=1.5
>
> This sounds good. Any guess when will gnat have this? 2012, 2013, 2014?

Surely not until there is a firm proposal (all that exists now is an outline 
with no details). Beyond that, I doubt AdaCore will be announcing firm dates 
until its actually available. (They already have some 2012 stuff 
implemented, so it might not be a long wait.)

                               Randy.