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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mats Karlssohn wrote:
> Brian Rogoff wrote:
> %<
> > According to the logic used for defending () versus [] for arrays, we
> > should just make everything look the same, like Lisp :-).
> 
> Or Perl... =)

Huh? Perl uses special characters in variable names to carve up the
namespace, so Perl is not a good example of unifying similar notations. 
Or, maybe you mean that most Perl code looks like undiscriminated
line-noise? Well, I won't argue with that ;-)

I guess the first step in unifying Ada notations (if you think () is so
great :) is to get rid of the attribute syntax and replace that with
function call notation. This would actually be a bit more consistent too,
since you can't define a new 'Image but you can define a new Image(X) :-)

-- Brian