From: rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff)
Subject: Re: Limitations of Ada
Date: 1996/07/31
Date: 1996-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ROGOFF.96Jul31100025@sccm.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4tlpfa$cr9@bagan.srce.hr
dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
Kazimir commented on alledged limitations of Ada
4) Small number of operators to overload, see C++
Incomprehensible, all operators and subprograms are overloadable in Ada
I expect that what Kazimir meant was something like
4) Small number of binary infix (and unary prefix ) operators whose
meanings can be assigned by the user.
Overloading is an orthogonal issue; note that Eiffel 3 allows one to define
brand new infix operators, but does not have overloading.
This is a legitimate complaint. I have wanted additional operators for image
processing operations. However, it is not really a "limitation", just a
tiny syntactic inconvenience. I assume the same reasoning that led to the
ban on macros (readability and potential for abuse) led to this decision.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-29 0:00 Limitations of Ada Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Kazimir Majorinc
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-08-08 0:00 ` mpost
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Jack W Scheible
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Jack W Scheible
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-19 0:00 The Quelisher
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1996-07-24 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-07-29 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Klaus Wyss
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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