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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:

> A private implementation of an array type. If the language have had
> full ADT there would be no need predefined Unbounded_String. Or
> consider the following:
> 
> type Sparse_Matrix is
>    private array (Integer range <>; Integer <>) of Element;
> 
> It has an array interface, but internally it is also a record type
> using a list to keep the array elements.

But how do you access element into this array, what would be done
for:

   M : Sparse_Matix (1 .. 7, 1 .. 90);

   M (2, 6) := ...;

Pascal.

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