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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:38:20 -0400
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> Then to get the element at index 5, one needs to write something like 
> Element(V,5).
>
> Is there a way to redefine this so one need to only write V(5) ?

Not yet.

There is a proposal for this for Ada 2012.
And some other useful syntactic sugar.

- Bob