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Subject: Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)
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On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 12:59:38 PM UTC-5, Jere wrote:
> Actually it does work on low level arrays in C++.  It doesn't work 
> on pointers to array elements however, which people often confuse
> with arrays (that's how people most often pass them to functions, 
> but there are other methods).

I didn't realize C++ had progressed to tracking how long a low-level array is, but in retrospect it's come along so much in terms of what you can do at compile-time that I should have tested before commenting. Thank you.

regards
john perry