From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:39:44 +0100
Date: 2002-02-28T21:38:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8n51e1r.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3c7c9767.727156@News.CIS.DFN.DE
dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) writes:
>>Kumano-san states the mathematical argument very nicely
>>here. Personally I tend to agree with this point of view.
>
> Yes, however analogy is not complete in Ada. At least three things
> spoil this nice equivalence. For arrays one can do:
>
> 1. Result assignment. Mapping (Input) := Output
This notation is not completely unusual in mathematical circles
nowadays, even among mathematicians who haven't been influenced much
by programming languages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-28 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-25 1:19 Why not using [] instead of () for array? Adrian Hoe
2002-02-25 1:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-25 3:14 ` Darren New
2002-02-25 10:14 ` Peter Hermann
2002-02-25 3:23 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-02-25 5:28 ` David Starner
2002-02-25 14:39 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-26 7:56 ` Mats Karlssohn
2002-02-27 4:52 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-27 16:44 ` Darren New
2002-02-27 14:29 ` David Starner
2002-02-27 0:50 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-27 17:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-25 18:46 ` Toshitaka Kumano
2002-02-27 4:54 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-27 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-02-28 5:29 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-28 21:39 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2002-02-27 1:09 ` Adrian Hoe
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2002-02-28 6:37 Christoph Grein
2002-02-28 22:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
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