Re: Array Help?

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 02/29/2012 03:59 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>  writes:
>
>> My 1st programming job, using FORTRAN 66, dealt with tree-ring data. We
>> had data from 1600 to 1970. Calculating the correct array index for a
>> year was a rich source of bugs for us; if we'd been able to have the
>> lower bounds be 1600 rather than 1 life would have been a lot easier.
>
> Indeed.  In Ada that would be a constrained array.
> I was talking about unconstrained arrays.

I think if I were doing it in Ada today, I'd have an unconstrained array type, 
and then create a constrained subtype with bounds determined from the input.

But remembering the monolithic, goto-filled crap I coded in those days, there 
are a lot of things I'd do differently today.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Sir Robin the not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot,
who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor,
who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol,
and who had personally wet himself at the
Battle of Badon Hill."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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