From: Wesley Pan <wesley.y.pan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Gnat 2013 is out!
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:00:48 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-06-04T12:00:48-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <950ab843-dd31-43a2-a11b-344fad2334ab@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e22b697-fc91-4cde-94e6-b806359faf0f@googlegroups.com>
On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 11:34:55 AM UTC-7, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 10:42:53 AM UTC-7, Wesley Pan wrote:
> > I apologize if this sounds really naive. My Ada skills is quite rusty at the moment (trying to slowly re-learn it). Why not simply make 'dummy' a new keyword? I imagine many people would call their throw away variable something like "Dummy".
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> We already do. That's why we can't make it a new keyword. It would make a ton of existing code illegal. The idea makes sense; too bad they didn't think of it way back in 1983.
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The new attribute idea would avoid any clashing of new keywords since the apostrophe helps to clearly distinguish it.
We can also consider: disposable, expendable, momentary, and ephemeral. Guys writing cryptographic software might complain about the last word since they probably use it a lot. =)
-Wesley
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2013-05-29 13:36 Gnat 2013 is out! J-P. Rosen
2013-05-29 15:03 ` Simon Wright
2013-05-29 16:13 ` Simon Wright
2013-05-29 22:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-30 2:01 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-30 8:01 ` Bill Findlay
2013-05-30 23:09 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-05-31 5:02 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-05-31 18:35 ` Bill Findlay
2013-05-30 10:39 ` Simon Wright
2013-05-30 16:21 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-30 19:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-31 7:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-05-31 11:30 ` Stefan.Lucks
2013-05-31 12:03 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-05-31 22:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-01 11:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-03 14:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-04 17:42 ` Wesley Pan
2013-06-04 18:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-06-04 19:00 ` Wesley Pan [this message]
2013-06-05 15:40 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-06-11 2:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-06-11 6:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-19 21:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-30 0:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-05-31 16:12 ` dptrash
2013-06-01 5:10 ` Stephen Leake
2013-06-01 6:00 ` Per Sandberg
2013-06-01 6:46 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-06-01 15:22 ` Bill Findlay
2013-08-27 14:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-08-27 20:05 ` wilson
2013-08-27 22:59 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-08-28 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-08-28 23:39 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-06-07 2:41 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-06-07 15:52 ` mjsilva
2013-06-07 20:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-06-09 18:51 ` MatthiasR
2013-06-08 6:22 ` Simon Wright
2013-06-08 23:23 ` mjsilva
2013-06-10 11:07 ` Rego, P.
2013-06-13 13:30 ` Rego, P.
2013-06-17 6:35 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-06-22 8:17 ` MatthiasR
2014-03-18 0:04 ` Rego, P.
2013-06-11 7:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-06-11 9:35 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-06-11 12:09 ` John Doe
2013-06-12 7:58 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-06-12 11:01 ` G.B.
2013-06-12 20:01 ` Robert A Duff
2013-06-12 20:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-06-13 7:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
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