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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Can Ada iterate over Nd array?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:30:22 -0400
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Date: 2012-04-27T09:30:22-04:00
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> I have (or had) a five dimension array in one of my programs.

I'm curious what the purpose was.

>...It was quite a 
> problem to avoid running out of space (the size multiplies in a hurry!)

Yeah.  Which is why 1000 dimensions is ridiculous -- if the length
in each dimension is just 2, you have 2**1000 components.
I suppose you could have a 1x1x...x1 array.  Or if just one
'Length is 0, the whole thing is empty.  But those don't seem
terribly useful.

- Bob