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From: DrPi <314@drpi.fr>
Subject: Ada syntax questions
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Hi,

Ada claims to have a better syntax than other languages.
I'm fine with with, but...

1) What about array indexing ?
In some other languages, arrays are indexed using square brackets. In 
Ada, parentheses are used for function calls and for array indexing.
In the code "status := NewStatus(some_var);", you can't tell if 
NewStatus is a function or an array.

2) In Ada, a function without arguments is called without any parentheses.
In the code "status := NewStatus;", you can't tell if NewStatus is a 
function or a variable.


For my knowledge, are there good reasons for these syntaxes ?

Nicolas