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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3bf50ede73cff892 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Operators Questions Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194777874 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <3275D478.5952@eurocontrol.fr> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Jon Anthony gives as a reason for not overloading IN > > "It's a reserved word..." > > this is a bogus reason, MOD can be overloaded That's being generous. It is one of the stupidist things I have said here... > The real issue is that it has very special semantics, involving ranges, > which cannot be passed as parameters, to make extensions that allow > ranges to be passed as parameters is a big mess for little gain. Aha.... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com