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,ace3fca092a457cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler Error References: <1185901323.18398.4.camel@kartoffel> <46b03439$0$20992$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <46b03439$0$20992$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1186005092 12.201.97.213 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:51:32 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:51:32 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:51:32 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1324 Date: 2007-08-01T21:51:32+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > Or perhaps Robert Dewar's suggestion to reserve one punctuation > symbol not currently in the language for user defined operator > overloading might help, like "$"? Or, since $ is used in some > preprocessors, one symbol that is wisely picked from the set > of symbols available in ISO 10646. Just one. Personally, I like unary function "\". -- Jeff Carter "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!" Dr. Strangelove 33