aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) writes:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:18:38 +0200, Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
> <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no> wrote: 
> 
> >Arrays as functions? Since when could you assign to a function??
> 
> Dont think of it as 
>       a(5) := b;
>      
> but as
>      a(5).all := b;
> 
> where you're not assigning to a function, but to an object via a pointer.


The Dijkstra/Gries school views an array as a function.  Instead of
assigment to one element of the array, you look at it as changing the
entire value of the function.  

The Science of Programming, by David Gries
A Discpline of Programming, by Edsger Dijkstra