From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,bf03d731a6ef511f X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array. Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:45 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <12ezqn0wq0lmm$.s7nr5aueiwa4$.dlg@40tude.net> <3e1a4234-95ef-4e77-a87d-1bc6e560fe7f@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <4b71bca4$0$948$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1265756612 14636 192.74.137.71 (9 Feb 2010 23:03:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:03:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MVeQE5b4k0ciA/dYs4XDb6MBiEQ= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9054 Date: 2010-02-09T18:03:45-05:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry writes: > Or maybe my response is I do not want to remove any feature from Ada. Fair enough, but that's not quite the same as saying that all Ada features are equally useful. For ex., if you got rid of the full coverage rules for case statements, I would kick and scream! > Even entries families (that you have cited) are useful, I had use of > them in one application. Sure, I've used entry families. But you can use requeue instead, so I judge entry families less useful than slices. - Bob