From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator
Date: 1998/01/12
Date: 1998-01-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMnKy7.LyJ.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bd1e34$1632c2c0$24326489@Westley-PC.calspan.com
Terry J. Westley (westley@calspan.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know who's idea it was to rename the
: Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String function to the "+"
: operator in the Intermetrics Java bindings? I'm
: using the Aonix ObjectAda translator but assume that
: the Java class library came from Intermetrics.
: Thanks much for this clever little idea. IMHO, it
: really improves ease of use and code readability.
: Does this idea originate with the Java work at
: Intermetrics or does it predate it?
This idea has been around for quite a while.
: I find the inverse of + useful as well:
: function "-" (s : String_Ptr) return String
: renames Interfaces.Java.Java_To_Ada_String;
: Does anyone think this is a misuse of operator
: overloading?
As with Robert Dewar, I prefer using "+" for such conversions,
independent of direction. Overloading figures it out.
I wouldn't want to see "+" used all over the place, but
it certainly comes in handy for relatively "trivial" conversions
that have to be used in many contexts.
: --
: Terry J. Westley, Principal Engineer
: Calspan SRL Corp, P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225
: westley@calspan.com http://www.calspan.com/
--
-Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-12 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-11 0:00 renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator Terry J. Westley
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <En3Cxz.7HD@world.std.com>
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-22 0:00 ` Anonymous
[not found] ` <dewar.885498969@merv>
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Terry J. Westley
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-17 0:00 ` miniscences Nick Roberts
1998-01-17 0:00 ` miniscences Robert Dewar
1998-01-19 0:00 ` renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator Anonymous
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox