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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.



  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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