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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,65cf1c5c90ed694 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada vs. C++ (Readability) Date: 1997/09/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 271688904 References: <341566c7.0@news.uni-ulm.de> <5v4kie$jp1@panix.com> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jeorg says <<> The comma operator has been prettily redefined to cause concatenation>> UGH! what a perfect illustration of the dangers of such capabilities. Whenever someone thinks they have done something clever, as in this case, they have often created an unreadable, unmaintainable nasty!