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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: subprogram must not be deeper than access type
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:04:14 +0200
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:49:24 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:34:28 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a �crit:
>> Down with accessors. The language should simply support sugars like:
>>
>>    F (X) := G (Y)  -->  F[Index] (X, G (Y))
>>
>> After prefix notation was introduced, there is no reason why other
>> shortcuts should not be allowed.
> 
> This is not a matter of sugar of shortcuts, that's a matter of being  
> explicit and clean. Formally speaking, parameters of a function is a  
> tuple, the same for function result. No need for more (but not for the  
> actual Ada any way).

It is not that simple. Sugar is always needed, for example for flattening
lists: F((a,b,c)) <--> F'(a,b,c)

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de