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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a59300e1cca1082c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-19 20:21:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Safe C++ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010919201737.M6489-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> References: <3BA7A45D.186EE27A@adaworks.com> <20010919072904.O10277-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:21:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 1000956095 206.184.139.136 (Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:21:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:21:35 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13198 Date: 2001-09-20T03:21:35+00:00 List-Id: Take a look at the numerous languages that have pattern matching (Haskell, SML, OCaml, Erlang, Mercury, Prolog, Clean, Hope ...) and then explain to me just what you're talking about. I'll give you a hint: if you say generics to someone who thinks Ada and say generics to someone who thinks Common Lisp or Dylan they will be thinking different things. You're thinking about an almost altogether different thing. -- Brian On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Botton wrote: > Take a look at the __numerous__ pattern matching options offered in the > GNAT.* packages. There is everything from a Spitbol implementation to Unix > style patterns matching. > > > into the standard. And I really think pattern matching > > David Botton > > >