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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> > But how do you access element into this array, what would be done
> > for:
> > 
> >    M : Sparse_Matix (1 .. 7, 1 .. 90);
> > 
> >    M (2, 6) := ...;
> 
> I have to prove an implementation for Set_Element, I suppose. When I declare 
> that Sparse_Matrix an array, I have to override all the abstract methods of 
> the universal array type might have. Set_Element is one of them.

You mean that the compiler must generate a call to Set_Element/Get_Element for
every reference to an array item, right ?

So what you are looking for is a type with runtime support, a bit like
Ada.Finalization API with the Initialize/Adjust/Finalize routines, right ?

Pascal.

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