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From: Brian Hanson <brian.hanson@lawson.com>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/28
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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