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!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The answer to "Can Ada replace FORTRAN for numerical computation? Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:23:04 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <4ba1579b-a096-483d-8f7a-9028a419d643@googlegroups.com> <28590d5c-d5f0-4322-9aa4-e1bb92419db3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57069 Date: 2019-08-16T21:23:04+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-08-16 20:29, Norman Worth wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 2019-08-15 18:45, Norman Worth wrote: >> >>> I agree that arrays would probably work better as containers, but >>> array slices are very handy in a number of cases when you need to >>> copy part of an array or restrict the view of the array.  But then >>> slices would probably work better as container functions too. >> >> Rather containers would work better as arrays and slices of like >> String vs Unbounded_String. >> > Of course we can have (and sometimes do have) arrays of containers. Jagged and n-D arrays cover all cases. Containers without array interface are usually no containers at all, e.g. lists. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de