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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Auto-allocation of Indefinite Objects
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:45:45 +0200
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On 21/08/2020 01:33, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:mkmtjflufgmatkk3hp25nvk2hoogun1fis@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:49:44 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
>> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> declaimed the following:
>>
>>>
>>> But records and arrays are needed as building blocks of containers. How
>>> would you get rid of them?
>>
>> And likely needed for any embedded or low-level work where they are
>> mapped to things like (GP) I/O ports or such...
> 
> Yes, a fixed vector container would be needed for interfacing (probably
> wouldn't use it for anything else). But there's no reason that can't be
> provided as a container, so long as representation guarentees (esp.
> Component_Size) are included. Remember that containers (in Ada 202x) have
> indexing, aggregates, and all of the useful basic operations. The stuff
> that's missing is the same stuff that adds a vast amount of complexity to
> Ada (and possibilities for bugs) - hardly anyone would miss it.

Really? I would miss array conversions, slices, equivalence of same 
length index ranges, constrained array subtypes etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de