From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Subject: Re: Why is abs an operator, not a function?
Date: 18 Oct 2006 09:36:10 +0200
Date: 2006-10-18T09:40:01+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iyyulcl.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1161148425.954662.138180@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net> writes:
Jerry> Why is abs an operator and not a function? Just wondering. Is
Jerry> there no way to write a function abs() that, say, computes the
Jerry> absolute value of each of the components of a float array?
Of course there is :) You can overload operators as well in Ada, just
use the name "abs" (including the quotes).
Sam
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2006-10-18 5:13 Why is abs an operator, not a function? Jerry
2006-10-18 7:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-10-18 7:36 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
2006-10-19 1:45 ` Robert A Duff
2006-10-19 4:30 ` Keith Thompson
2006-10-23 2:39 ` Jerry
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