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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
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> But I think what Simon wants is convenient syntax for dealing with
> associative arrays, and that's reasonable.  But in a better language,
> that wouldn't require associative arrays to be built in.

Which Ada 2012 has. Specifically, referencing container elements works just 
like an array, and iteration works just like an array. Simon said he didn't 
want keys created implicitly, so the explicit calls to Insert aren't a 
problem. So what's missing? (Slices don't make sense for Maps, since the 
items are not ordered.)

                                  Randy.