From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Imagine Ada with Fewer Attributes
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 09:11:25 +0200
Date: 2010-05-16T09:11:25+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1traqo27keftd$.1izrkt670wogy$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hsn07m$acs$1@news.albasani.net
On Sat, 15 May 2010 16:29:37 -0400, Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> The recent discussion of the 'Image attribute got me thinking of the
> issue of the whether Ada uses attributes too frequently. I feel that the
> language would be simpler and easier to use if most of the Ada
> attributes were replaced with operations.
Primitive operations, you mean. That would require al types to have
classes. This is what I wanted to have since Ada 95. If there were done Ada
would become a much nicer language.
BTW, the notation of attributes can be preserved, e.g. you could be allowed
to declare operations with the syntax X'Y.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2010-05-15 20:29 Imagine Ada with Fewer Attributes Frank J. Lhota
2010-05-15 20:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-05-16 7:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-05-16 15:31 ` Robert A Duff
2010-05-17 13:27 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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