From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-16 14:09:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3EE7CC70.E1FD3A67@adaworks.com> <3EECA772.4B662024@adaworks.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:08:27 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.75.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1055797775 80.195.75.181 (Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:09:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:09:35 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39276 Date: 2003-06-16T22:08:27+01:00 List-Id: On 16/6/03 21:52, in article slrnbesbfu.1mj.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no, "Preben Randhol" wrote: > Bill Findlay wrote: >> idem (or any new reserved word) but: a new reserved word > > My problem with idem is that I don't understand what it meant. Is it Latin? It's (old fashioned) English, meaning "the same (word)". It derives from Latin "item". > So > > Age := idem + 1; > > for me reads that I set the Age to some variable idem + 1. If a reserved > word I would rather one found one that makes it more clear that it > refers to LHS. One could of course use LHS, but I don't know if it is > clear for others etc... I have said several times that I regard "idem" purely as a placeholder in this discussion for a token to be determined. > Personally I would rather have: > > Age'Inc (1); > > unless this has some sideeffects I don't know of. However one loose > the possibility for: > > Age := idem * 3 + (idem/2 - 1); Well, you lose everything except addition. Quite a loss. -- Bill-Findlay chez blue-yonder.co.uk ("-" => "")