From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/19
Date: 1999-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ph5mv$uuk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37BBA5E1.13FBF70E@kvaerner.com
In article <37BBA5E1.13FBF70E@kvaerner.com>,
"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
> > I'm well aware that there's little or no chance of this being added
to
> > some future version of Ada (which makes this whole thread somewhat
> > off-topic, I suppose). I'm just saying that I like the idea, and I
> > wouldn't mind seeing it in some future language.
>
> So would I. I don't care much for [+-*/]= as I too think it is ugly.
> However using @ or a functional equivalent seems to be worthwhile. It
> may make some code much more readable than it would otherwise be. I
I personally don't agree that swapping perfectly good identifiers for
line noise characters will make things more readable. But if you do feel
that way, it would be trivial to implement it in a precompiler.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-15 0:00 C like op= proposal Brian Rogoff
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1999-08-19 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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