From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Discriminants of tagged types
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-10-28T01:55:09-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194ed91-2fe9-4695-8f3a-792b74ec4730@c32g2000vbq.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcchbg7nogv.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
On 28 Paź, 02:35, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> > This is especially reasonable if you take into account that in Ada
> > 2005 protected types can derive from interfaces. It would be very
> > inconsistent not to allow the same calling syntax across the whole
> > hierarchy, including the class-wide type.
>
> Good point. But I'd prefer to unify the syntax in the
> other direction.
And I would accept that other direction without any criticism, really.
The problem is that time has only one direction and now there is no
other option than to allow the dot syntax for everything.
In its current state, the language is inconsistent and only more
difficult to learn.
--
Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 12:16 Discriminants of tagged types Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-27 12:34 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-27 13:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-27 13:52 ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-27 14:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-27 13:44 ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-27 15:06 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-27 15:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-27 16:35 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-27 17:58 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-27 20:18 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-27 20:26 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-27 22:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-27 22:42 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-27 15:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-27 16:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-27 21:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-27 21:23 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-28 8:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-27 21:25 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-28 7:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 8:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-28 10:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-28 17:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-29 18:59 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-30 21:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-30 21:21 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-10-30 22:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 16:20 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-31 17:04 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-31 18:36 ` Shark8
2010-10-31 21:06 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-11-01 0:44 ` Shark8
2010-11-01 9:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-27 16:06 ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-27 16:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-27 21:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-10-28 0:35 ` Robert A Duff
2010-10-28 8:55 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2010-10-27 21:28 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-27 13:54 ` J-P. Rosen
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