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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,2078ce7aac45af5b X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.189.16 with SMTP id dc16mr10764704qab.0.1352928713505; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.52.93.229 with SMTP id cx5mr656997vdb.19.1352928713431; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:31:53 -0800 (PST) Path: gf5ni57984530qab.0!nntp.google.com!u2no2949057qal.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:31:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1na6brajyyab1.1m57ova8gzvwk$.dlg@40tude.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=92.235.245.78; posting-account=g4n69woAAACHKbpceNrvOhHWViIbdQ9G NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.235.245.78 References: <0114d327-9f9f-4ad2-9281-56331d11a90c@googlegroups.com> <2bb9e5fa-04a2-4073-bca1-1739ce0580f1@googlegroups.com> <57bca956-2348-4825-8f5f-04fb91863696@googlegroups.com> <094f94ed-dbcc-4dba-bd9d-894a75f69037@googlegroups.com> <8373eaf3-5299-4bbb-a462-56d2d76d6333@googlegroups.com> <1na6brajyyab1.1m57ova8gzvwk$.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada202X : Adding functors From: Martin Cc: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Injection-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:31:53 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-11-14T13:31:53-08:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:37:55 PM UTC, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > Because arrays do not have Perform operation, they do ()-operation. Yes, there was a decision at some early point in Ada's life to move away from "[]" for array accessing to "()" - which seems to be a move to deliberately make it look like a function call. Also, there are enumerate values which again are 'functions'...only not really...now that's obfuscation! :-) -- Martin