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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: The future of Spark . Spark 2014 : a wreckage
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:21:02 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-07-09T08:21:02-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400d477-0967-4dd7-aeb2-fc93c7e6fe27@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1307090916480.23845@debian>

On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 12:34:59 AM UTC-7, Stefan...@uni-weimar.de wrote:

> Actually, this has been irritating me when using named notation for out 
> parameters, since I have learned Ada. If Y is an out parameter, it should 
> be Do_Something (X <= Y), shouldn't it?

<= already has another meaning, so that wouldn't work.  As some of us have pointed out before, an early version of Ada did have different symbols; instead of the arrow, =>, it used =: for IN parameters, := for OUT parameters, :=: for IN OUT parameters.  I don't really know why this idea was dropped before Ada 83 was finalized.  I'm beginning to think it should have been left in.  Especially now that [IN] OUT parameters are allowed in function calls; I've been big on the idea of providing some syntax for a function call that would let the reader know that the call might be changing one of the parameters.

                            -- Adam

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-09 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-08 17:56 The future of Spark . Spark 2014 : a wreckage vincent.diemunsch
2013-07-08 19:24 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-08 20:59 ` Florian Weimer
2013-07-09  7:40   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09  8:30     ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-09  8:58       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 10:27         ` G.B.
2013-07-09 11:13         ` G.B.
2013-07-09 15:14     ` Adam Beneschan
2013-07-09 22:51     ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-10  7:49       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-10  8:21         ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-08 21:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-09  7:28   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 11:29     ` Simon Wright
2013-07-09 12:22       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-09 20:37     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-10 10:03       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-10 23:21         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11  7:44           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-11 22:28             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-12  8:02               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-12 21:16                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-14 10:19                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-14 15:57                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-07-16  0:16                       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-17  1:30                         ` Shark8
2013-07-17 23:08                           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-18  7:19                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-19  4:36                               ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-16  0:13                     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-16  8:37                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-16 22:13                         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-17  7:59                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-17 23:26                             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-18  7:37                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-19  4:32                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-19  7:16                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-20  5:32                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-20  9:06                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-12  1:01           ` Slow? Ada?? Bill Findlay
2013-07-09  7:57   ` The future of Spark . Spark 2014 : a wreckage Stefan.Lucks
2013-07-09 20:46     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-10  8:03       ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-07-10 12:46         ` Simon Wright
2013-07-10 23:10         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11 19:23           ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-07-12  0:21             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-12  9:12               ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-07-12 20:47                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-08-05  5:43                 ` Paul Rubin
2013-07-10 12:19   ` vincent.diemunsch
2013-07-10 16:02     ` Simon Wright
2013-07-11  0:36     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11  6:19       ` Simon Wright
2013-07-11 23:11         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11 10:10       ` vincent.diemunsch
2013-07-11 14:23         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-07-12  0:07           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-12  0:00         ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-12  7:25           ` Simon Wright
2013-07-12 20:07             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-12 14:23           ` Robert A Duff
2013-07-12 20:14             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-11 23:50       ` Shark8
2013-07-08 23:18 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-07-09  7:34   ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-07-09 15:21     ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
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