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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f47e0c6e2e5fd00d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David A. Cobb" Subject: Re: Function name problem Date: 2000/01/16 Message-ID: <38824AD2.DC1F56D5@home.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573513582 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <85qecu$24r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <85stib$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.wwck1.ri.home.com 948062931 24.10.108.106 (Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:48:51 PST) Organization: @home MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:48:51 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Starner wrote: > (1) Where do you put the new operator? Any fixed place will be wrong > much of the time, and a flexible place will kill the parsing speed, > cause much pain for parser writers, and make the program hard to read. > f := a % b && c == d; could have almost any precedence, and since > builtin precedence is already enough of a readibility problem . . . > Those of us with gray beards and long if flaky memories may remember "Algol '8x" (I don't recall the x). An over-ambitious work by theorists that was still around when Ada was being designed. Had a lot of symbology about user defined operators. I could never read any of it. 'C' is hard enough to read.