From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: initialize an array (1-D) at elaboration using an expression based on the index?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:01:06 -0500
Date: 2010-10-15T20:01:06-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message
news:4b8f7f06-a817-4545-9fc6-67740c67b9d3@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
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>It seems like it would be simple to add syntax to array aggregates in
>the language like
>
>a : array(1..N) of Float := (for I in 1..N => Float(I)*Float(I));
>
>The legality rules and rules about applicable index constraints would
>be the same as if "for I in" were not present.
There was a proposal to allow this for Ada 9x. It got dropped somewhere
along the line (don't recall why, might simply have been "scope reduction").
It hasn't been reconsidered since, so far as I remember.
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-16 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-15 23:03 initialize an array (1-D) at elaboration using an expression based on the index? Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-15 23:31 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-16 0:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-16 0:29 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-16 1:47 ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-16 1:01 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2010-10-16 10:08 ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-18 15:03 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-19 6:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-10-20 20:01 ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-19 16:34 ` Britt Snodgrass
2010-10-19 18:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-19 19:00 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-11-10 14:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-10 15:51 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-10 17:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-10 18:03 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-11-11 1:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-11 8:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-11-11 12:02 ` Robert A Duff
2010-11-11 14:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-10-16 0:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-16 0:54 ` Gene
2010-10-16 1:11 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-21 13:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2010-10-24 16:40 ` Shark8
2010-10-24 22:48 ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-25 2:23 ` Shark8
2010-10-29 23:26 ` Phil Clayton
2010-10-31 18:47 ` Shark8
2010-10-31 21:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-11-01 0:45 ` Phil Clayton
2010-11-01 1:55 ` Shark8
2010-10-30 6:34 ` Brian Drummond
2010-10-31 19:00 ` Shark8
2010-10-31 18:09 ` (see below)
2010-10-31 19:35 ` Shark8
2010-10-31 22:47 ` (see below)
2010-11-01 0:07 ` Shark8
2010-10-31 23:21 ` (see below)
2010-10-31 21:26 ` Brian Drummond
2010-11-12 18:10 ` Randy Brukardt
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