From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/06/04
Date: 2000-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9yB_4.4309$Md1.135838@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3939602B.677BF4FF@telepath.com
"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:3939602B.677BF4FF@telepath.com...
> Ken Garlington wrote:
>
> > Does "new" count as a function call?
>
> That'd be quite a stretch, as its a reserved word. You might as well say
"type"
> ... "is" is a function call. I think we're stretching it far enough just
> accepting the "no function call" restricion to begin with. The only reason
I
> can see for it is an attempt to constrain the possible answers in a way
that
> selectively hampers one language over another.
>
> We might as well say "you can't use anything *but* function calls, and no
infix
> operations are allowed", so that Lisp comes out as the superior string
handling
> language.
My point being: The original question implied that the Java solution was
better because it had no function calls. However, it used "new". So either
(a) "new" is a function call, in which case the question doesn't appear to
make any sense, or (b) it isn't, in which case we'd need to know for sure
what _is_ a function call.
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-02 0:00 C vs. Ada - strings Wes Groleau
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-18 0:00 ` Pete
2000-05-18 0:00 ` dale
2000-05-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-19 0:00 ` dale
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Keith Thompson
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img dmitry
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Brian Rogoff
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-19 0:00 ` C vs. Ada - strings Geoff Bull
2000-05-19 0:00 ` mike
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Ted Dennison
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-05 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-03 0:00 ` C vs. Ada - strings Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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