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In article <6054@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> No, actually it doesn't.  Not if the language has a "whole array" syntax.
> In such a language, you pass the _specific_ section of the array that
> the next procedure needs.

Are you implying that Ada, which has this feature (under the somewhat
misleading name of ``slicing''---it's a type of slicing, but a very
restricted type), suffices for array shifts?

How do you take an array x indexed from 0 to 10 and pass it to a
procedure indexed from -5 to 5 (presumably with a pointer to the 0th)?
I don't see a way to do this.

If it's there, my apologies; this is what I get for not spending a lot
of time with a language before talking about it. In that case the word
``Ada'' should be deleted from my postings on arrays versus pointers.
But I just don't see how it's done.

---Dan