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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: How to access an array using two different indexing schemes
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 22:40:41 +0100
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Yet another example is encoding. For example UTF-8 string is an array of 
octets and an array of code points (or characters).

The problem is that Ada does not have array interfaces to support 
user-defined indexing, nor it allows superclasses so that such an 
interface could be added to an existing type without meaningless record 
extension.

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