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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Can Ada iterate over Nd array?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:21:58 -0400
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Date: 2012-04-30T09:21:58-04:00
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Martin <martin@thedowies.com> writes:

> True but a 3-d array can always be re-arranged into 3 * 1-d arrays.

That's true if the bounds are fixed, or all but the outermost one are
fixed.  But a two-dimensional array can have "range <>" in both
dimensions, which is impossible (in Ada) for an array of array.

- Bob