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Subject: Re: renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator
Date: 1998/01/19
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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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