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From: Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:
>> Array slicing is a wonderfully useful feature.  I use this feature in almost
>> every program of mine.
> 
> Really!?  I think of array slicing as a pretty minor feature of Ada,
> which causes a lot of trouble for compiler writers, that could be
> dispensed with.  After all, you could write a function that grabs those
> components.
 
> I'm thinking particularly of slices as L-values.  Do you ever use that?

Ask everybody who likes MATLAB:

in other words "yes".

And it's in Fortran 90/95, for similar reasons.  Note that F90 was
designed after Ada.

Getting arrays right definitely helps lower bugs, because
off-by-one counting in iteration are frequent source of
errors.
 
> - Bob