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From: aldona@pyr.gatech.EDU (STEPHEN D. STRADER)
Subject: Re: Question about Ada expressions
Date: 12 Oct 89 10:56:06 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9307@pyr.gatech.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8834@spool.cs.wisc.edu

In article <8834@spool.cs.wisc.edu> schmidt@green.cs.wisc.edu (Perry Schmidt) writes:
>In Ada, when building boolean expressions you must put ANDs and ORs (and
>OR ELSES, etc) in parents IF you use them in mixed combination.
>Ex.  (A and B or C) -- is not legal.  You must write it as...
>     (A and (B or C))
>So the question is -- WHY?

BECAUSE!

No, actually it is to remove ANY ambiguity as to how the expression
should be evaluated.  

Saright?

S

  reply	other threads:[~1989-10-12 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1989-09-29  1:59 Ada 9X objectives Bill Wolfe
1989-09-30 16:59 ` ryer
1989-10-02 18:00   ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-02 20:07     ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-02 23:33       ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: Re: Ada 9X objectives) Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-03 18:14         ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-03 20:02           ` Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-05  1:56             ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-05 20:35               ` John Goodenough
1989-10-06 16:11                 ` Ada 9X objectives William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-07  1:27               ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: Re: Ada 9X objectives) Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-08 16:39                 ` Translating 83 => 9X William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-04 18:08           ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: ryer
1989-10-05 15:29           ` stt
1989-10-08 17:56             ` Modernizing Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-04 13:09       ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives James E. Cardow
1989-10-04 20:24         ` Ted Dunning
1989-10-05  2:04           ` Ada vs. Scheme William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-06 12:06           ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives Norman Diamond
1989-10-06 12:50           ` Robert Munck
1989-10-08 17:07             ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-10 15:00               ` Robert Munck
1989-10-11 14:47                 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-11 18:13               ` Dick Dunn
1989-10-11 22:14                 ` Question about Ada expressions Perry Schmidt
1989-10-12 10:56                   ` STEPHEN D. STRADER [this message]
1989-10-12 12:15                   ` Robert Firth
1989-10-12 22:07                   ` stt
1989-10-13 14:38                   ` horst
1989-10-12  1:11                 ` Ada 9X objectives William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-13 11:05                 ` Markku Sakkinen
1989-10-06 19:00         ` Re^2: " Dick Dunn
1989-10-10  3:26           ` James E. Cardow
1989-10-12  5:09             ` Ada 9X objectives and long development cycles Dick Dunn
1989-10-12 18:16           ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives Robert Eachus
1989-10-02 21:01   ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1989-10-12 23:37 Question about Ada expressions Karl Nyberg
1989-10-15 20:35 ` Scott Simpson
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