Re: Visibility of Indexing aspects

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 5:06:00 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dan'l Miller" wrote in message 
> news:71ab145a-83fd-46af-81c3-fe72c67c6897@googlegroups.com...
> > ...(even when the programmer considers 4 of them as a bad idea) ...
> 
> A pretty inflexible programmer if you ask me. This is the same sort of 
> programmer that then complains that the performance of indexing isn't good 
> enough, because they are triggering all of this expensive mechanism rather 
> than directly doing something simple.

Expensive?  Gee, I would think that precisely the same machine code verbatim would be generated for each of the following syntactic variants of the one and only same semantic meaning:

Find (IB,"pear").Data.all := Element'(...); -- Traditional call 
IB.Find ("pear").Data.all := Element'(...); -- Call of prefixed view 
IB.Find ("pear") := Element'(...); -- Implicit dereference (see 4.1.5) 
IB ("pear") := Element'(...); -- Implicit indexing and dereference 
IB ("pear").Data.all := Element'(...); -- Implicit indexing only 

> I surely hope this programmer never works for me or tries to buy anything 
> from me.

If you'd ever see my résumé, it is obvious that I prefer programmers who discover clever less-is-more designs that do vastly more via vast effort-reduction:

One time I worked at a company that shrank a room-sized telephone switch down to a single FPGA.  In so doing, we accidentally designed astronomical scale at super efficiency & speed:

1) the biggest best clickless wire-tap machine on the planet that can wire-tap 100% of the telephone calls passing through it, not the mere 1% as many of the competing telephone switches more-is-more designs do,

2) the telephone switch that has made those ten-thousand-attendee conference-calls possible that are so popular nowadays in the financial world for earning statements to the shareholders;
and

3) when a national emergency occurs, can ring all the hundreds-of-thousands of telephones throughout an entire metropolitan area •concurrently• to play a listen-only looped FEMA message-du-jour in the household's same native-tongue natural language as the natural language utilized to print their billing statement.