From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b076e6315fd62dc5 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.196.232 with SMTP id ip8mr4617570pbc.6.1338364856503; Wed, 30 May 2012 01:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni65228pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:59:57 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1ghvpneswil9f$.eafw9sso7xgo.dlg@40tude.net> References: Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: FbOMkhMtVLVmu7IwBnt1tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-05-30T09:59:57+02:00 List-Id: On Wed, 30 May 2012 09:54:44 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote: > Le Wed, 30 May 2012 09:29:04 +0200, Niklas Holsti > a écrit: >> Please, not "&", that would make calls look too much like calls in C >> with pointer parameters. "&" being the C "address-of" operator. "&" is >> also a large glyph, as tall as upper-case letters, making a following >> identifier harder to recognize at a glance. How about "~"? Meaning, I >> want "approximately" this value, but converted as necessary. > > “~” also means “negation” to people accustomed to some languages. What about fixing the language instead of thinking about ugly kludges? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de