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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [JLS] new long[0][ -1 ]
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On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:41:58 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

>>      IME you can achieve the same in Java by using TreeMap or HashMap,
>> the choice probably depending on whether you need ordered access to the
>> array elements.
> 
> I am sure that something can be constructed. But I don't think it will
> have the simplicity as in those other languages.
>
I dunno: writing TreeMap<KeyType, MyClass> is simple enough, very 
explicit and rather easy to instantiate and use.

I don't know Ada, but the Algol 68 equivalent is very similar:
  mymode[myindextype] a[-500:500];


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