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: 103376,842accb6a7d76669 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 23:10:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.uncensored-news.com!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: Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.1 Message-ID: <_KME7.11052$xS6.15321@www.newsranger.com> 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: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 02:09:46 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 07:09:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15722 Date: 2001-11-03T07:09:46+00:00 List-Id: In article , Eric Merritt says... > >Not to rain on the discussion but I have to say that >the use of the "+" instead of Constructor is not very >intuitive. Someone suggested Make and Construct >wouldn't be bad, but I think "+" lacks readability and >could be confusing. That was my initial thought too. But the only response I got about it on 1.0 was pro-unary operator. I figured if I switched to using it on this version, I'd flush some anti folks out of the woodwork. :-) --- 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.