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From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: 2000/11/22
Date: 2000-11-22T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A1C118D.9505E40F@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8vfjhn$t4e$1@nnrp1.deja.com

> Why is it confusing? Simple, most people think of conversions
> as basically function calls, and it is peculiar to have a
> function call as an Lvalue. (peculiar in Ada as well, and indeed
> notice we do not allow conversions on the left side -- Ted's

Although I remember an Ada 83 compiler that did allow it....


-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau




  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-22  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-20  0:00 About conversions Sandro Binetti
2000-11-20  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-20  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20  0:00     ` Stephen Leake
2000-11-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21  0:00         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-22  3:27               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-22  4:54               ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-22  0:00                 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2000-11-22  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-22  0:00         ` Tristan Gingold
2000-11-24  0:00         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-11-24  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-11-21  2:57     ` DuckE
2000-11-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-23  6:21 Christoph Grein
2000-11-23  0:00 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2000-11-23  0:00   ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-23  0:00     ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2000-11-28  2:20   ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-24  0:00 Christoph Grein
2000-11-28  1:33 ` Robert Dewar
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