Re: Copying rows in a two dimensional array.

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

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> I beg to disagree strongly to that too :)
>
> I have lot of code like this one:
>
>    S (A .. B) := R (C .. D);
>
> or
>
>    S (A .. B) := V;

I just did some searching in the GNAT sources.  About a million lines
of code.  About 7000 slices.  About 1500 slices on the left of ":=".

Warning: this is a crude search -- I probably have both false
positives and false negatives.

I must admit, these are higher numbers than I expected.

Almost all of them look like strings, at a quick glance.

> I would say that slices are really what make life easier in Ada compared
> to other languages in many ways.

OK, but I'm not comparing them to other languages.  I'm comparing them to
other features of Ada (or other features that I'd like to see
in Ada).

- Bob