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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,fa2cc518ef3b992c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: root Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (we have an opportunity here) Date: 2000/02/12 Message-ID: <38A5A7A3.72030F3F@free.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 585041896 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <389207CC.C16D80E8@averstar.com> <38971028.BB16D8A2@earthlink.net> <3899F757.FAE131B3@free.fr> <389D43A6.786C7B79@free.fr> <880gpk$fv04@ftp.kvaerner.com> <38A47E5A.42406034@earthlink.net> <38A53714.3EBC10C3@online.no> X-Accept-Language: fr-FR, en, it Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp2.proxad.net 950380485 213.228.25.213 (Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:34:45 CET) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:34:45 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" wrote: > ... > > You have started in the wrong direction. Such an interpreter should have an Ada-ish > look and feel, but it should not be Ada. E.g. I strongly believe that it should use > "[" and "]" for arrays. There should be reasonable defaults. > ... Someone said on this news group that this was envisioned for Ada 83, and at last abandoned because those character where not always available on keyboard at this time. This is obviously no more true. I believe this syntax should be used, because: 1 - i think sources will be more readable, 2 - sources could be easily pre-processed to be compiled by a regular compiler. Lionel.