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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: 28 Oct 2001 04:53:24 -0500
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In article <3BDBC0DC.5080005@mail.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> James Rogers wrote:
> 
>> Yes. Let's all use a language with common constructs like the
>> following:
>> 
>> float (*(*f)())();
>> 
>> This is "simple" C syntax for a pointer to a function returning a
>> pointer to a function returning a float.
> 
> 
> I could go "nyah nyah" and point out that until Ada 95 came along,
> Ada didn't have pointers to functions. And functions returning
> pointers to functions aren't all that common, so you don't see too
> many declarations like that in typical C or C++ code.

If they aren't that common, it shouldn't have mattered that Ada83
did not have them.

If they aren't that common, that should _increase_ the need for
clarity.