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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> writes:
>
> > > I'm thinking particularly of slices as L-values.  Do you ever use
that?
> >
> > I did that a lot in Ada days, too.
>
> An example, please?

I can't say that I used that "a lot"
but one example does come to mind:
An existing interface which requires
a string with a number of (almost
unrelated) fields which must be
placed at given offsets with given
lengths. Since the fields are next
to non-related except that they
must fit into the same string it's
quite a bit tempting to implement
it as:

X(L1..H1) := F1;
X(L2..H2) := F2; etc