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,f868292008c639ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings Date: 2000/06/03 Message-ID: <3939602B.677BF4FF@telepath.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 630707430 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <8en5o9$ihe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8eonos$e70$1@wanadoo.fr> <1fIU4.4668$Rx3.250161@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com> <3924B730.AFB52C1C@acenet.com.au> <4hc_4.2223$Md1.63965@news.flash.net> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 960061159 216.14.8.56 (Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:39:19 EDT) Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:39:19 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Garlington wrote: > Does "new" count as a function call? That'd be quite a stretch, as its a reserved word. You might as well say "type" ... "is" is a function call. I think we're stretching it far enough just accepting the "no function call" restricion to begin with. The only reason I can see for it is an attempt to constrain the possible answers in a way that selectively hampers one language over another. We might as well say "you can't use anything *but* function calls, and no infix operations are allowed", so that Lisp comes out as the superior string handling language. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com Work - mailto:dennison@ssd.fsi.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591