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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
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Robert A Duff wrote:

> In Ada, "array" is built in, and has all kinds of cool features
> (aggregates, with full-coverage checking, for example).  It's
> annoying that vectors can't have all of those features.

What is the reason that vectors (and trees and linked lists) aren't
built in, while arrays are?

Greetings,

Jacob
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