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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Array index overloading
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:25:10 +0200
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On 06.08.14 19:38, marmaduke.woodman@univ-amu.fr wrote:
> So V(2 .. 4) is possible, but is the equivalent V((2, 3, 4)) ? How about V((9, 1, 2)) or V(((3, 3), (4, 5)))? It seems these cases fall outside the intrinsic indexing support providing by Ada.
>

These facilities are found in languages that are implemented
in languages like Ada. Consequently, if Ada or one of its
relatives had had these facilities, the aforementioned languages
would not have been created.