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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: how to copy complete column (or row) of matrix to another?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:17:26 +0100
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> Too bad, because Ada is good language in terms of its
> strong typing and other features, which I think will
> make numerical software more robust, but it has little
> support for many common operations build-in for working
> with matrices and vectors as Fortran and Matlab already
> has.

For example,

   function Column
     (V : Complex_Matrix; C : Integer) return Complex_Vector
   is
   begin
      return Result : Complex_Vector (V'Range (1)) do
        for J in V'Range (1) loop
           Result (J) := V (J, C);
        end loop;
      end return;
   end Column;