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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Any easy/build-in construct to extract submatrices from larger
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On 6/25/2012 9:48 PM, Jerry wrote:

>
> Which brings me to one of my least favorite Ada features, the use of
> () instead of [] for array indices.

fyi,
I found the allowed characters in Ada in the original
steelman document, dated June 1978

http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/steelman/steelman.htm#2

"Every source program shall also have a representation that
uses only the following 55 character subset of the ASCII graphics:

     %&'()*+,-./:;<=>?
    0123456789
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_

"

You see that [] were not even in the allowed character set.

--Nasser