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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal
Date: 1999/09/24
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"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.