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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: New aggregates with Ada 2022.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:04:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <t9h4i9$118a$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t9h2is$1ckn5$1@dont-email.me

On 2022-06-29 10:30, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:

> * Maps are usually constrained. It does not make sense to concatenate, 
> sort, slice, or slide a map. The abstraction of a map includes 
> non-discrete key subtypes, so arrays used as maps are a special case.

There is an important distinction regarding the keys. Some maps assume 
keys ordered or have a distance measure, so that the map would have 
operations like next-to-this or closest-neighbor-of. Another type of 
maps is when keys are totally unordered, e.g. relational tables (key = 
tuple).

> A language that provided direct support for these abstractions should 
> not need to provide arrays.

Which is of course impossible considering the variety of maps (e.g. 
graph is a map etc) and all problem-space specific.

Array as a building block is the best way to go, IMO.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-29  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-19  7:59 New aggregates with Ada 2022 Blady
2022-06-19 14:15 ` Simon Wright
2022-06-20 19:36   ` Blady
2022-06-20 22:01     ` Simon Wright
2022-06-20 21:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-20 22:18   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-21 23:28     ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-22  9:04       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-23  1:06         ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-23  9:32           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-23 10:53             ` G.B.
2022-06-24  1:21               ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-24  1:24             ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-24  6:50               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-25  3:13                 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-25  8:50                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-27 21:37                     ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-28  5:36                       ` Niklas Holsti
2022-06-29  4:01                         ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-29  8:30                           ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-06-29  9:04                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2022-06-30  5:03                               ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-30  8:44                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-29 11:06                             ` Niklas Holsti
2022-06-29 12:53                               ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-06-30  5:07                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-30  5:14                               ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-30  8:31                                 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2022-07-01  5:20                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-30 10:30                                 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-06-30 15:48                                   ` Marius Amado-Alves
2022-06-30 16:39                                     ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2022-07-01  0:07                                       ` Marius Amado-Alves
2022-06-28  7:52                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-29  4:07                         ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-29  7:24                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-30  5:00                             ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-21 23:39     ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-22  8:26       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-23  1:10         ` Randy Brukardt
2022-06-23  9:32           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-06-20 22:10 ` Jesper Quorning
2022-06-20 22:59   ` Jesper Quorning
2022-06-21 23:20     ` Randy Brukardt
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