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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Copy vector in Ada
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:22:24 -0600
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"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:32001fef-4d96-455e-a706-3512500dda49@googlegroups.com...
> On Friday, November 2, 2012 8:10:56 AM UTC-6, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>> Assignment statements for containers have copy semantics. For example,
>>
>> LRM A.18.2 says about vectors:
>> "                         Implementation Requirements
>>
>>
>> "254/2 The execution of an assignment_statement for a vector shall have
>>  the effect of copying the elements from the source vector object to
>>  the target vector object."
>>
>> So, backed by the LRM, programmers need not worry about Adjust 
>> procedures,
>> if any.
>
> Dang, that is _nice_.
> I'm glad we've got a lot of smart guys on the language-definition group.

Thanks, I think. :-)

Of course, it is always possible for an implementer to screw this (or 
anything) up. But if they do, you at least have firm ground for a bug 
report.

                                  Randy.