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From: Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/28
Date: 1999-04-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3726A3FF.E999AB49@rocketmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7g4tqn$5vk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com

Robert Dewar wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Therefore, we would have had to make shift and rotate into
> reserved words, which would have been upward incompatible,
> or else invent new operator symbols, which seemed like too
> much mechanism.
> 
> <<end of quote>>
> 
> This seems quite straightforward and convincing!

Sure, but it still doesn't explain why 'shift_left, etc.
weren't defined, when 'max, 'pred already set a precedence
for making operators named by identifiers.

- Corey




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-04-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-26  0:00 Question for the folks who designed Ada95 Corey Ashford
1999-04-27  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27  0:00   ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-27  0:00     ` bill
1999-04-27  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27  0:00         ` Al Christians
1999-04-27  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-27  0:00             ` Al Christians
1999-04-28  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-29  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00               ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-27  0:00       ` dennison
1999-04-27  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-27  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00       ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-29  0:00           ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00               ` Fraser Wilson
1999-04-29  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29  0:00                 ` Mark A Biggar
1999-04-30  0:00                   ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-29  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-30  0:00                 ` David Brown
1999-04-29  0:00               ` Geert Bosch
1999-04-27  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-04-27  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00         ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-28  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Bill Ghrist
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-28  0:00           ` dennison
1999-04-28  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00               ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28  0:00                 ` Brian Hanson
1999-04-28  0:00                   ` bill
1999-04-29  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00                       ` Pat Rogers
1999-04-29  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00                           ` dennison
1999-04-29  0:00                             ` Pat Rogers
1999-04-29  0:00                     ` Robert S. White
1999-04-29  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-30  0:00                         ` Robert S. White
1999-04-29  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-30  0:00                         ` Robert S. White
1999-04-30  0:00                           ` dennison
1999-04-30  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00           ` Question for the folks who designed Ad David Kristola
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-04-27  0:00     ` Question for the folks who designed Ada95 Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-29  0:00     ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-30  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27  0:00   ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-27  0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-27  0:00   ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-27  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00       ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28  0:00         ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28  0:00       ` Corey Ashford [this message]
1999-04-28  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00           ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29  0:00               ` Fraser Wilson
1999-04-29  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28  0:00     ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28  0:00     ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-27  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27  0:00   ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-28  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1999-04-29  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
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