From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/04/07
Date: 2000-04-07T20:10:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8clfc1$o71$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38EE19E0.F0232DB0@Raytheon.com
In article <38EE19E0.F0232DB0@Raytheon.com>,
"Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com> wrote:
... [ snipped some stuff preceding this ] ...
>I'd rather see [] and {} be allowed as substitutions for ()
>in a similar way that ! of allowed for |, % is allowed for ",
...
Curly braces, yet. I recall reading somewhere that the reason for
not including curly braces in Ada was due to the worldwide shortage
of { and } created by heavy usage of the C family of languages. It
is simply a matter of economics. Perhaps the same economics applies
to the square brackets. :-)
Richard Riehle
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-27 0:00 Why is it Called a Package? Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle [this message]
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Comment from the trenchs Robert Brantley
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Brantley
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Why is it Called a Package? Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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