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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Containers.Vectors - querying multiple elements
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Date: 2005-04-27T10:15:28+02:00

Hi Marius,

> Yes. I fought for slices in the ARG forum many months ago [1]. I was 
> practically alone. Where were you guys? :-) You could have made the 
> difference. It happened with indefinite elements. Here I pushed harder. 
> It took three waves of discussion, at separate times. The final wave 
> was started by a simple statement of need by someone else. 
> Ada.Containers now have indefinite elements, but not slices. For slices 
> there was only one wave. Now it's too late for Ada 2005.
> 
> [1] Discussion archived at
> http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-30302.TXT?rev=1.16

I'm reading that (long) discussion now.  How does one get onto this
mailing list?  You know, if vectors were called sequences, probably
I wouldn't be asking for slices - it's true that the name "vector"
carries a lot of mental baggage :)

Ciao,

D.