From: Brian Hanson <brian.hanson@lawson.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/28
Date: 1999-04-28T15:52:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37278218.ADE17A46@lawson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcczp3sd2s8.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff wrote:
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
>
> > What is missing from this discussion is an argument that
> > it is advantageous to distinguish array and function
> > references ... Yes, people want [] because they are
> > used to it from (some) other languages, but that's a
> > very weak argument.
>
> Function calls can have side effects; array indexing does not.
> It seems useful to distinguish those two.
Arrays are potentially modifiable, functions are not.
giving
pure functions =similar to= constant arrays
functions with side affects
non constant arrays.
Should it be usefull to syntatically distinguish between all these.
Brian Hanson
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1999-04-26 0:00 Question for the folks who designed Ada95 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
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 ` Corey Ashford
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 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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 [this message]
1999-04-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1999-04-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert S. White
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
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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 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 ` Mark A Biggar
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-30 0:00 ` David Brown
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1999-04-27 0:00 ` bill
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
1999-04-27 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 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
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