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Subject: Re: Prefix to 'ACCESS must either statically match... But why?
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> Please note that an access to array slice is by no means less safe
> than an access to the whole array. Thus I wish Ada had them.

I'm not so sure that this is possible in general. Note that the slice boundaries need no lie on storage 
unit boundaries.