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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:38:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Robert Kawulak <tigrisek@interia.pl> wrote:
: 
: Of course C++ has got arrays inherited from C which are the core language 
: construct,

Prior to C99, functions had no means to know how many
floats there were in the "array" argument:

float foo(float a[]);

The article "Array Variables" by Dijkstra might be interesting.
As an addition in Ada, you can specify the type, and therefore the range,
of discrete values that can be used as index values.


-- Georg