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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-14 23:44:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!213.204.128.162!news000.worldonline.se!news010.worldonline.se!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCA8730.E660DB5E@mida.se> From: Mats Karlssohn Organization: MIDA Systemutveckling AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? References: <9q25ec0248o@drn.newsguy.com> <9q421v0bbg@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:50:24 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.204.138.119 X-Trace: news010.worldonline.se 1003127496 213.204.138.119 (Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:31:36 WET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:31:36 WET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14499 Date: 2001-10-15T08:50:24+02:00 List-Id: "Robert*@" wrote: %< > As was said many times, object.method() vs. method(object); is only syntax, but > it is an important syntax difference. > > We can argue this for many years to come. Technical discussions on this mean > very little any more. At the end of the day, if you want more people to > use Ada, Ada must implements the class construct and allow programmers > to use object.method(). I now feel that I must jump into this arguement (spl ?) Isn't it so, that IF programmers can't adapt to minor syntactical differences (such as the object.method() vs. method(object) issue or the BEGIN/END vs. {} issue) THEN they are probably pretty bad programmers anyway (who probably would have benefited from Ada;s belt and suspenders approach) ? Sorry about the long sentence with lots of ()! -- Mats Karlssohn, developer mailto:mats@mida.se Mida Systemutveckling AB http://www.mida.se Box 64, S-732 22 ARBOGA, SWEDEN Phone: +46-(0)589-89808 Fax: +46-(0)589-89809