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From: marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort)
Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide
Date: 2000/08/28
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>An expression of type matrix33 can be used as parameter for a function
>like ` "*"(A:matrix; v:vector) return vector; '.
>
>You could also define
>
>  type matrix33 is array(1..3,1..3) of my_float;
>
>But then you lose the generality of the "matrix" type.
>That's the big problem of "classic" Pascal, or Modula-2: you can only
>program things with fixed sizes, except for variant records.

Pretty much yes. But because the size of "matrix" is fixed, and not
dynamical, it is too limited IMHO.

When I had to design a new language, I would add it I think, because it
seems nice. But to change to another language (... ADA..) for it?