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: 103376,81bb2ce65a3240c3 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.241.162 with SMTP id wj2mr6121030pbc.2.1341081809576; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni3205pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X? Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:43:17 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1hfh4rai2wgtv$.umqxi3ytqb26.dlg@40tude.net> References: <3637793.35.1335340026327.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynfi5> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 9A8bJrx4NhDLcSmbrb6AdA.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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-06-30T20:43:17+02:00 List-Id: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:00:46 +0000 (UTC), Brian Drummond wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:34:10 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> Code review and maintainability problems. The set of symbols cannot be >> infinite. > > Practical considerations surely restrict the length of additional > operators, but I'm not sure that restriction belongs in the syntax. I didn't meant length. I think that the number of operators should be small to be memorizable. All symbols should be predefined, e.g. from the Unicode page. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de