From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator
Date: 1998/01/13
Date: 1998-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bd207b$67021d60$41fd82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34BBBB88.DDE@gsfc.nasa.gov
No he won't Stephe. Operator precedence is fixed in Ada. This is (cited
as) one of Ada's design features. +"abc"&"xyz" means "+"("abc")&"xyz"
always. (You need to modify your impulses ;-)
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Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in article
<34BBBB88.DDE@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
> Tom Moran wrote:
> >
> > What does
> > +"abc"&"xyz"
> > mean, and, more importantly, how many people know without having to
> > look it up?
>
> Oops, I forgot to think about operator precedence in my first post (I
> see now that is the point of Tom's post :(.
>
> This means:
>
> convert "abc" to some other type, then concatenate "xyz"
>
> The responsible package author will overload "&" as well as "+", to
> handle this correctly, as the reader's first impulse expects :).
>
> --
> - Stephe
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-13 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-11 0:00 renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator Terry J. Westley
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
[not found] ` <En3Cxz.7HD@world.std.com>
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Anonymous
[not found] ` <dewar.885498969@merv>
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Terry J. Westley
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-17 0:00 ` miniscences Nick Roberts
1998-01-17 0:00 ` miniscences Robert Dewar
1998-01-19 0:00 ` renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator Anonymous
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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