From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: defining functions
Date: 1999/11/25
Date: 1999-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ih6t$jm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 81gthb$kej$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au
In article <81gthb$kej$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>,
"Riyaz Mansoor" <s800032@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> function "==" (Stack1, Stack2 : in Stack) return Boolean;
> (i find the single equal sign really irritating!!!)
One of the things that is important when you come to a new
language is to understand the style and conform to it. Nothing
would be more horrible (*) than seeing == used in an Ada
program, and it is in this case an excellent thing that the
compiler prevents this abuse.
(*) well I guess a comparable thing would be to see an Ada
programmer writing C, and starting off with
#define begin {
#define end }
etc.
Unfortunately the C preprocessor WOULD allow this appalling
abuse of the macro processor.
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1999-11-25 0:00 defining functions Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-11-24 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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