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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Janus/Ada actually does neither -- the bounds are stored separately, and
> belong to neither. (The memory used is allocated separately if needed.)
> Indeed, I don't think you can store the bounds with the array for
> slices, so I think your analogy is incorrect (there is nothing like
> slices for tagged types, of course).

Good point.  If a slice is passed as a parameter, the bounds ought to be
passed separately from the pointer-to-data.  In Ada 83, I suppose one
could always copy slices, but in Ada 95, some types require pass by
reference.  Including a slice of one of those.

- Bob