Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

tmoran@acm.org writes:

>>Can you give an example where P should know that its String
>>parameter came from a slice, and should know the lower bound
>>of that slice?  I can't think of any off the top of my head
>>-- it just seems like a fundamentally broken abstraction if
>>you care about the lower bound of a string.
>
>   package Int_IO is new Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO(Integer);
>   ...
>   Last := Line'first-1;
>   for i in V'range loop
>     Integer_IO.Get(Line(Last+1 .. Line'last), V(i), Last);
>   end loop;

Interesting example.  Thanks!

I'd still prefer all strings start at 1, and I'd do parsing of
a text stream of integers in a different way (keep track
of current position without using slices at all).

- Bob