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,a3bf872bb81a1f2b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-11 14:45:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!howland.erols.net!news-out.worldnet.att.net.MISMATCH!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <7RQP7.4406$Yy.272014@rwcrnsc53> <9v0crv$bo2bi$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3C13D980.748CCCDA@acm.org> <9v37s0$cdmva$3@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Subject: Re: ASCL a doomed idea? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <30wR7.37506$Yy.395982@rwcrnsc53> NNTP-Posting-Host: D%vR7-215634-Yy-395900@rwcrnsc53 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1008110719 D%vR7-215634-Yy-395900@rwcrnsc53 (Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:45:19 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:45:19 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:45:19 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17788 Date: 2001-12-11T22:45:19+00:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" wrote in message news:9v37s0$cdmva$3@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de... > "Jeffrey Carter" wrote in message > news:3C13D980.748CCCDA@acm.org... > > >Lists are not strings > > [all together] "Oh yes they are!" > > > and use different nomenclature. > > [all together] "Oh no they don't!" > > Or, rather, a string is a kind of list (do you really have a problem with > that concept?), He's not the only one... Look, you have said that you conceive of a list as a "store" into which things are written and out of which things are read. Are you truly saying that if I write Put_Line ("Hello, world"); that you think of the thing I am passing as an instance of a kind such a store? > and what the heck is the problem with using the same > nomenclature for both (as far as possible) to help avoid confusing the poor > Ada programmer? The problem is, as Jeff says, that they are not the same thing, and in fact have little to do with each other. So if anything, you're going to confuse people *more* if your nomenclature is at variance with standard terminology for lists (assuming that there is such a thing...). MHO, -- mark