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From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: 20 Jul 2001 16:46:55 GMT
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In article <slrn9lgceb.jq.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> * Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>>`operator=' improves readability if left side is non-trivial.
>>
>>Example:
>>A->foo[1].start.x = A->foo[1].start.x % 640;
>>A->foo[1].start.x %= 640;
> 
> declare
>   w : myType renames A.foo(1).start.x;
> begin
>   w := w mod 640;
> end;

That's evil and takes 5 lines instead of just 1.

>>Compiler (at least gcc) warns when you screw formants.
> 
> printf is an runtime interpreter. That's ugly.

Almost all printfs are compile-time printfs.
Complire could as well support printf or equivalent.