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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-16 09:13:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: + in ada Date: 16 Oct 2003 09:13:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1066320823 18699 127.0.0.1 (16 Oct 2003 16:13:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:994 Date: 2003-10-16T09:13:43-07:00 List-Id: Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote in message news:... > | -----Message d'origine----- > | De: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com > .. > | And I say, if you think "Add > | (A, To => B)" is as clean and clear as "B :+ A", you don't get it. But > | that's just my opinion, of course. > > To understand "B :+ A", you need some programming background. > To understand "Add (A, To => B)", you just need english. Baloney. If I had no programming background, I would wonder, "What are the parentheses for?" Then I would wonder, "Why is that arrow-like thing pointing from `To' to `B'"? After those questions were answered, I would think, "OK, so we're adding A to B, then what the heck are we doing with the result? Is it going into A or B or somewhere else altogether?" On the other hand, if you are a professional programmer, and it takes someone more than 30 seconds to explain what "B :+ A" means, then you are a full-fledged rockhead, and you should be doing manual labor rather than programming. > Which one is more clear is pretty obvious.