Re: Adding "()" operator to Ada 200X

[Fionn mac Cuimhaill <invisible@hiding.from.spam>]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:35:01 GMT, "Frank J. Lhota"
<NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote:

>There appears to be wide agreement that Ada 200X should include some sort of
>standard container library like Charles and PragMark. This library will
>probably include generic packages for creating and operating with dynamic
>lists and maps. One can view these kinds of collections as generalized
>arrays, and as such, it would be nice to use array notation for accessing a
>member of one of these collections. In other words, one should be able to
>define the "()" operator for array-like types, as follows:
>
>    function "()" ( Source : in Array_Like_Type;
>                    Index  : in Index_Type )
>       return Component_Type;
>
>

 To go along with this, a way to define a slice of of an
Array_Like_Type would be nice.