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: 103376,7f4d16c4ee371eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package? Date: 2000/03/30 Message-ID: <38E2A4A4.E59E997C@research.canon.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604107412 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com> <38DFB0BC.9FF72EFC@callnetuk.com> <87u2hq857e.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@research.canon.com.au X-Trace: cass.research.canon.com.au 954377352 2207 203.12.174.227 (30 Mar 2000 00:49:12 GMT) Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Mar 2000 00:49:12 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-30T00:49:12+00:00 List-Id: Isn't it a little bit late to be arguing about this? Robert A Duff wrote: > > Florian Weimer writes: > > > > > Robert A Duff 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