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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.236.143.143 with SMTP id l15mr1369474yhj.57.1412614739711; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:58:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.131.165 with SMTP id on5mr142224igb.2.1412614739604; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!s7no890876qap.0!news-out.google.com!bc9ni17237igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no2183568igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 09:58:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <316d9x005gmc.5g7tfuqkgxab.dlg@40tude.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <3ffbdc6a-e767-4de1-922f-c9c1ec748f4d@googlegroups.com> <017bf59f-074b-470e-b959-88e0a484bf63@googlegroups.com> <1upa6p7nx1ar6$.ykhb0o5h2qen.dlg@40tude.net> <01611b4d-fe59-433c-ba6c-3ee75f8a3e26@googlegroups.com> <316d9x005gmc.5g7tfuqkgxab.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: array of string From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:58:59 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22148 Date: 2014-10-06T09:58:58-07:00 List-Id: On Saturday, October 4, 2014 8:20:36 AM UTC-7, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > On Saturday, October 4, 2014 10:32:44 AM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote= :=20 > >> this case either. Assignment is not an operation in Ada. >=20 > > Just being picky on nomenclature: There is an *assignment statement* in > > Ada, a part of that is the *assignment operation*. >=20 > > What you mean, is: Assignment is not an *operator* in Ada. >=20 > Not quite. >=20 > Though, I prefer "operator" to mean a lexical element of an expression > (e.g. +) and "operation" to mean a subprogram taking the type as an > argument or result (e.g. a primitive operation). Actually, RM 3.2.3(1) considers both predefined operators (which are subpro= grams) and "language-defined operations such as assignment or a membership = test" (which are not subprograms) to be "predefined operations", and it say= s those are included in "primitive operations". =20 The AARM has this note (3.2.3(1.c)): # Discussion: We use the term "primitive subprogram" in most of the # rest of the manual. The term "primitive operation" is used mostly in # conceptual discussions. Whether this is actually true is debatable. I tried searching for the term= "primitive operation" in the AARM and found some places in 3.9 where it lo= oks like the term was used where "primitive subprogram" would have been mor= e appropriate, but those where only in the AARM, not the RM. I didn't sear= ch really hard, though. In any case, I can understand why there would be c= onfusion. -- Adam