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From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Subject: Re: renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator
Date: 1998/01/19
Date: 1998-01-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199801191436.PAA25860@basement.replay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.884996680@merv


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On 16 Jan 1998 19:29:43 -0500, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
wrote:

> ...
>
> Indeed the use of the "+" notation assumes that programmers are familiar
> with this idiom. It is an old one which was well understood at the time of
> the original design, and I would have thought it was pretty universally
> known. Certainly it is something that all Ada programmers should be familiar
> with. Even if you don't like to use it yourself, you are highly likely to
> run into code that does use this convention.
> 

I've been developing software professionally since 1975, and using Ada
since 1984, and I only recently encountered this "old idiom" by reading
about it here. Perhaps it is familiar only to those involved in the
language design and implementation. I know I never encountered it in 14
years of reading the ARM, Ada texts, and Ada-related articles.

Jeff Carter  PGP:1024/440FBE21
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-01-19  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
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                 ` Anonymous [this message]
1998-01-25  0:00                   ` renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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