Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!

[Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>]

Brian Rogoff wrote:
[SNIP - perl stuff]
>
> I guess the first step in unifying Ada notations (if you think () is so
> great :) is to get rid of the attribute syntax and replace that with
> function call notation. This would actually be a bit more consistent too,
> since you can't define a new 'Image but you can define a new Image(X) :-)

This is actually a really good point, I've always (almost anyway)
wondered why the attributes were designed to have the syntax that they
have today. Not that I find them that annoying, but in half of their
use the attributes behaves just like functions, the other half (when
setting object'size := 14; for example) is another matter.

Do someone remember the history behind this ?

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