From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/11
Date: 2000-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-EA0F4E.20364411042000@news.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ddxI4.14290$ei.611831@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net
James Gilesm wrote:
> It's very BAD language design to use the same keywords for
> several distinct language features.
I'm sorry but i would have to strongly disagree here. People
are masters at contextual interpretation of the semantics of
words. There are so many words in English that are decoded
based on context (even pronunciation!) that I doubt this is
really an issue.
For example in Ada the word "new" is used for many uses...
type X is new Integer; -- type derivation
package X is new Blah (Integer); -- package instantiation
fred := new Integer; -- heap allocation
Dale
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2000-04-06 0:00 ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) bv
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Richard Maine
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Dick Hendrickson
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Richard Maine
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Richard Maine
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Dick Hendrickson
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Gordon Sande
2000-04-09 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-10 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-04-10 0:00 ` bv
2000-04-10 0:00 ` James Van Buskirk
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-11 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-12 0:00 ` James Giles
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Debugging (was: F9X twister & ADA) James Giles
2000-04-13 0:00 ` F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors) James Giles
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-04-14 0:00 ` bv
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Erik Edelmann
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul van Delst
2000-04-10 0:00 ` bv
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