From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal
Date: 1999/09/24
Date: 1999-09-24T20:20:37+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t74sgkys8h.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37ebb11e@eeyore.callnetuk.com
"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> writes:
> Whereas with ragged arrays, one need only write:
> Fruits: constant array (Positive range <>) of String :=
> ("Apple", "Orange", "Pear", ...);
> Much simpler and clearer, don't you think?
I don't know, because I don't have the correct intuitions about Ada.
The more complicated version certainly seems to me like the sort of
code generally advocated here, where everything is very explicitly
stated in the code.
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1999-09-22 0:00 ` Ragged Array Proposal Ted Dennison
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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