From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A little trouble with very large arrays. Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 21:06:14 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3f2828df-d54a-4427-bc3c-dc5ef0dc8069@googlegroups.com> <6a6e83b4-090c-4317-8880-d559fac4a9fc@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: IzvqdhUtDGKIMCldyDtZ+w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54493 Date: 2018-10-05T21:06:14+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-10-05 18:56, Shark8 wrote: > I still need a way to conform to the standard, that means if the standard says that it's possible to have a 999-dimension array, I need to have some way to represent this... even if it is never in actuality used. No. You only need to support applications reading/writing 999-D arrays in the defined format. Nothing in the standard orders any application to actually have 999-D arrays or any arrays at all. This is why it is so important to distinguish objects and their representations as defined by the protocol from the objects and their representations in the application. The problems you face arise from an attempt to equate them. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de