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-Thread: 103376,bd2212324e79c720 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.volia.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!news.mediascape.de!nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool03.plus.net!ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:09:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Selecting Components From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Selecting Components Thread-Index: AcYT8CDMX3FLpX/jEdqLNQARJIjQTg== References: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: 632d73bc.ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net X-Trace: DXC=OdkGn2icINjHRn^WjkTNVaigd3Y`7Rb;n3_LeXC3B]SiCeV5FLAFVTceQ9P2EF@?MoGfERDVJn48`[8GhaLQiNFl\:m3;ElMnkn<`>R]j^?a]jBeZ8nj:]>Ao X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2465 Date: 2006-01-08T01:09:09+00:00 List-Id: On 7/1/06 20:24, in article UrVvf.339$Hd4.149@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net, "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: > What would be the consequences if a language were designed so that all > selections used dot notation, including arrays: > > Array.Index > Array.Index_1, Index_2 > Array.Low .. High The consequence would be ambiguous arithmetic expressions. Consider: Array.Index + 1 is this (Array.Index)+1 or Array.(Index+1)? -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk