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From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of  Choice
Date: 1997/06/20
Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EC1zG2.DFo@syd.csa.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5o9eca$aoi$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au


Dale Stanbrough wrote:

:We shouldn't of course forget the option of using underscores in numeric
:literals, which to my continual amazement, no other language that i know of
:has!

Well, you can stop being amazed because Eiffel allows them. :)  

However, they differ in that digits must be grouped in threes. Grouping in 
threes is an arbitrary choice and, IMO, too restrictive. For example, it makes 
no sense for base 2 literals. OTOH, I think Ada's free placement is too liberal 
because it allows different groupings within the same literal.

Something in between is probably optimal - like allowing any grouping but with
the restriction that it must be consistent within a literal.


Don.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-06-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-18  0:00 Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-18  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-06-19  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-19  0:00     ` Anonymous
1997-07-17  0:00     ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21  0:00     ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-20  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-07-03  0:00           ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-03  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06  0:00               ` Yasmiin S. Davis
1997-07-06  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07  0:00               ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-04  0:00             ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-13  0:00               ` Ken Mays
1997-07-13  0:00                 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14  0:00                   ` Ken Mays
1997-06-20  0:00   ` Don Harrison [this message]
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Donovan Baarda
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Roy Grimm
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-20  0:00       ` Nick Leaton
1997-06-23  0:00       ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24  0:00         ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-06-24  0:00           ` Nick Leaton
1997-07-22  0:00           ` Dr. Vladimir Il'ich Fomin
1997-06-23  0:00     ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-06-23  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24  0:00       ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21  0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-06-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-24  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-28  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-13  0:00 Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-17  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00   ` nma123
1997-06-24  0:00     ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-17  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-17  0:00   ` Robert Munck
1997-06-18  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-19  0:00     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-06-19  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-18  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-18  0:00   ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25  0:00     ` Van Snyder
1997-06-26  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-30  0:00         ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02  0:00           ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02  0:00             ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02  0:00             ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-06-19  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Anonymous
1997-07-22  0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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