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: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 10:16:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED4ECFC.5060000@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com> <3ED46D81.FF62C34F@0.0> <3ED46E07.4340CABC@0.0> <3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:08:12 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1054141692 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 28 May 2003 13:08:12 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:08:12 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37922 Date: 2003-05-28T13:08:12-04:00 List-Id: Alfred Hilscher wrote: > Stuart Palin schrieb: >>Jeffrey Carter wrote: >>>Frank wrote: >>> >>>>What about the possibility of commenting several lines like /* ...... */? >>> >>>This was considered and explicitly rejected by the original Ada design >>>team as being too error-prone. >> >> >> >>And then they chose '--' as the comment delimiter! I have >>always found this rather odd as it seems to me to be a >>potential source of 'difficult to spot' typo errors. >>Consider, >> >> The_Result := Meaningful_Ident_1 -- Meaningful_Ident_2 >> + Meaningful_Ident_3; > > > > Yeah, but Ada urgently needs some operators like "++" and "--" (i++; > --i;) I disagree that it is "urgent". What is your case for urgency here? From what I have seen, most people that promote the idea, are just "typing challenged" (yes I know ++i is different than i++). Consider this: the Ada95 language is already large and complex. Is there really enough justification for complicating it with ++i/i++ issues? Not to meantion that --i may appear like a comment?!?!? ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg