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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Min/Max attribute makes promises it can't keep
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:53:25 +0200
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:10:46 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 28.04.10 15:41, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> Well, the proposal might be to fix rather the issue of the superfluous
>> subtype specification. Obviously Max (and many other attributes) are
>> primitive operations and need no subtype to specify. So:
>> 
>>     X'Succ, X'Pred, X'Image
> 
> That'll be fun:
> 
> C'Succ'Succ
> 
> 'C'&'&''Succ
> 
> ''''Succ
> 
> (M + N)'Succ

This is a slightly different design flaw. Things like "abc"'Length,
"abc"'First are illegal in Ada. No fun!

BTW, if you prefer dotted notation it could be

   X.Succ

as well.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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