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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,10444cff97404845
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/16
Message-ID: <7p7vtd$a8j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 513211138
References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908151023060.10801-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>
X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x27.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.69.150
Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Aug 16 03:18:11 1999 GMT
X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I)
Date: 1999-08-16T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article
<Pine.BSF.4.10.9908151023060.10801-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> Was anything like this ever discussed for Ada? Assuming some
acceptable
> notation was chosen for the pseudo-variable ("_" works, but
stands out
> less to my eye than "@"), would people find this more or less
readable
> than the current verbose approach?


Yes, of course, and it has been the subject of several CLA
threads, I know of no new arguments that would support any
change in the original design here.


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.