Re: Why is it Called a Package?

[Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au>]

Isn't it a little bit late to be arguing about this?

Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
> 
> >
> > Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> >
> > > FWIW, I don't like ".all" -- I prefer Pascal's "^".
> >
> > A missing or a surplus dereference operation can make a huge
> > difference, and sometimes, both variants are legal Ada code.  So it's
> > probably better to have a clear mark for this, and "^" is perhaps too
> > easily overlooked.
> 
> But in Ada, dereferences are *optional* in most contexts!  And all
> programmers leave them out when optional, because ".all" is so big and
> ugly and non-intuitive.  My point was that I agree with you that
> dereferences make a huge difference, and so should be explicit.
> Mumble^.Next is plenty explicit for me.
> 
> >...  Personally, I prefer U+2191 (UPWARDS ARROW) to
> > ".all", but the former would involve a quite radical change. ;)
> 
> Well, the "^" of Pascal originally *was* an up arrow.
> 
> - Bob