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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,25aa3c7e1b59f7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-04 08:31:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3C34BF2C.6030500@mail.com> Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 11:31:35 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:31:35 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18540 Date: 2002-01-04T16:31:35+00:00 List-Id: In article , Brian Rogoff says... >I know I'm digressing a bit, but I'd prefer that ":=" not be used for >declaring the value of a constant, since I think of that as being >different from assignment. Better to use "=" IMO. Of course I am now That's actually a pretty good point (but boolean equality is even further off the mark). I'd think using "=>" would be more appropriate. The arrow probably points the wrong way, but that's the way aggregates and parameter associations do it, and that's alot more akin to what is going on here. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.