From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada generics
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:13:02 +0100
Date: 2006-12-30T11:12:51+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a9k0vk46bqrq.1cx6cdld0wd9f$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kqOdnf2T7fl8UAjYnZ2dnUVZ_o2vnZ2d@megapath.net
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:25:28 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> For what it's worth, Ada says that all three of these represent the same
> identifier. That's not ideal, but it's the best that we can do without
> dropping into the character handling mess ourselves.
>
> This is even more interesting when you consider that there are alternative
> spellings for reserved words. For instance "acceß" is identical to "access".
> (See 2.3(5.c/2) in the AARM for more examples). We wrestled with that quite
> a while before deciding that such identifiers had to be illegal
> (2.3(5.3/2)); we didn't want them appearing in programs in place of reserved
> words.
Yuck. Would "acceβ" with Greek beta (β) and "if" with Cyrillic і in it be
valid identifiers?
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2006-12-21 14:14 Ada generics markww
2006-12-21 15:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-22 7:59 ` Martin Krischik
2006-12-22 16:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-22 7:59 ` Martin Krischik
2006-12-22 16:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-22 17:33 ` Markus E Leypold
2006-12-22 18:26 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-22 20:59 ` Markus E Leypold
2006-12-22 21:01 ` Markus E Leypold
2006-12-23 14:09 ` Marco
2006-12-25 14:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-29 14:13 ` Marco
2006-12-25 14:20 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-23 11:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-25 13:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-25 14:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-26 1:34 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-26 9:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-26 16:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-26 19:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-27 1:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-27 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-27 19:06 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-28 10:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-28 16:29 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-29 11:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-29 14:56 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-28 17:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-12-29 14:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-29 19:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-12-30 9:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-30 14:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-01 13:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-02 10:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-02 11:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-02 12:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-02 13:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-02 14:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-03 10:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-03 14:20 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-01-03 14:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-04 10:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-03 19:33 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2007-01-04 10:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-04 15:00 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2007-01-05 10:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-30 2:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-12-30 10:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2007-01-04 1:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-04 10:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-05 1:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-05 4:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-05 9:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2007-01-05 20:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-06 0:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-12-29 0:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-12-29 11:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-12-30 2:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-12-21 16:55 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-12-21 18:22 ` markww
2006-12-22 3:01 ` Steve
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