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From: eedelman@rock.helsinki.no-sp�mm.fi (Erik Edelmann)
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/07
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On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:19:40 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote:
>It is trivial in Ada to handle variable sized arrays, the
>example given (i.e. the code you quote) would be expected
>to handle variable sized arrays in normal usage (i.e. it
>is possible, but unusual, to write the type declarations
>so that it was restricted to one particular size).

Ok, but I still don't see how the Ada code in question is better than the
the Fortran code one could write to solve the problem.  The most natural
Fortran version of the code would IMHO even be slightly more elegant.


	Erik