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: 2003-10-22 11:21:38 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: 22 Oct 2003 11:21:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3F900F35.50203@comcast.net> <3F92B607.809@comcast.net> <3F937806.9080205@comcast.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1066846898 22437 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2003 18:21:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1449 Date: 2003-10-22T11:21:38-07:00 List-Id: Lutz Donnerhacke wrote in message news:... > * Russ wrote: > > Lutz Donnerhacke wrote in message news:... > >> * Russ wrote: > >> > "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:<3F937806.9080205@comcast.net>... > >> >> in a nutshell. Chad even gave a perfect riposte, to the question of > >> >> side effects. The statement x += y += 1; is perfectly legal C, and I'll > >> >> let Russ choose what is the effect, and what is the side effect. > >> > > >> > I'll tell you exactly what the effect is: a compile error. > >> > >> You should learn even C before ranting any further. > > > > I was programming a state-of-the-art experimental real-time precision > > landing system in C++ 10 years ago. > > You never learned the difference between effect and side effect in those > years? Your information reception ability seems very limited. For the record, I scored in the top 1% of the math section of the Graduate Records Exam, and I scored in the top 12% of the verbal section. (The GRE is the test that engineers take to get into graduate school.) I don't normally brag about things like that, but I don't see why I should have to keep it a secret when my "information reception ability" is challenged by a mental midget on a public forum. You don't know what you're talking about. > >> Yep. But we talked about C in this paragraph. > > > > No, I wrote exclusively about Ada, > > Yes, you moved to just another discussion place in order to refuse to answer > a clear question. That's bad discussion style. > > > rendered Mr. Eachus's point irrelevant to Ada. I did *not* claim that > > "x += y += 1" would not compile in C. I do have your permission to > > discuss Ada here on comp.lang.ada, do I not? > > You was asked to define the effect and the side effect in a legal C statement. > Prefering procedures to implement it in Ada does not answer this question. > > > Look, folks, I'm trying my best to be polite, but you have to agree > > that this guy is seriously confused to say the least. And he seems to > > have some kind of personal animosity toward me. That's bad for your > > emotional health, dude. > > Fuck off. That's the most intelligent thing you've said yet, dude. If you're representative of the level of intelligence on this forum, then that explains the reception I have received. Fortunately for the others here, I don't think you are.