From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 13:29:17 +0200 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <87k1su7nag.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po2la2qt.fsf@nightsong.com> <87in8buttb.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <87wowqpowu.fsf@nightsong.com> <16406268-83df-4564-8855-9bd0fe9caac0@googlegroups.com> <87o9i2pkcr.fsf@nightsong.com> <87bme2oy91.fsf@nightsong.com> <877eoom26h.fsf@nightsong.com> <87y3h3lpel.fsf@nightsong.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 11:29:17 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="376cadd70f7969b7b1ab2770cc95c392"; logging-data="31645"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18bn55hW8N9WFP03aQdgJp9JH3KL2Y/hnU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: <87y3h3lpel.fsf@nightsong.com> Content-Language: en-US Cancel-Lock: sha1:JUZNkOsIDcI+gXFGyUsjGrmW6i4= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51882 Date: 2018-05-01T13:29:17+02:00 List-Id: On 05/01/2018 11:02 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: >> What functional language has arrays? > > Are there any that don't? None that I have any familiarity with (admittedly a limited subset) do. They have lists, and operations that let you use lists with an array-like syntax, but no arrays. -- Jeff Carter "My little plum, I am like Robin Hood. I take from the rich, and I give to the poor. ... Us poor." Poppy 96