From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Initialization and Finalization of limited object "returned" by a function
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:00:55 -0600
Date: 2010-02-12T20:00:55-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hl514o$pun$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccocjue0e7.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wccocjue0e7.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:
>
>> I also remember some of the attempted rationalizations at the time; in
>> particular, why did Ada use parentheses for both subprogram calls and
>> array indexing, when other popular languages (Pascal and C) used
>> square brackets for indexing. Someone came up with an argument that
>> it was actually a good thing to use the same characters for both,
>> because then if your program uses Arr(Index), where Arr is an array,
>> you could redesign your program to make "Arr" a function and the
>> change would be transparent. That seemed like a stretch at the time.
>
> Well, this one makes a little more sense than the aggregate thing.
> But it doesn't work if you say "Arr(Index) := ..."!
Unless Tucker's latest project works out. Stay tuned...
Randy.
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2010-02-11 4:37 Initialization and Finalization of limited object "returned" by a function Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 9:51 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 11:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-02-11 11:33 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-11 23:15 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:24 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 5:41 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 15:15 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 16:27 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2010-02-12 17:53 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-02-12 18:05 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-13 1:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-12 16:57 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-12 18:07 ` mockturtle
2010-02-12 18:29 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 19:09 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-13 2:00 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2010-02-13 2:51 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-13 15:59 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-13 19:34 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-13 19:45 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 19:10 ` (see below)
2010-02-13 9:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-13 15:52 ` (see below)
2010-02-14 10:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-13 15:53 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-14 10:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-02-14 22:00 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 15:16 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-11 17:40 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-11 19:10 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-11 21:51 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-11 22:49 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 22:53 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:08 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-11 23:18 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 0:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-12 5:37 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-13 1:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-12 5:39 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 15:10 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 17:15 ` (Hibou57) Yannick Duchêne
2010-02-12 19:07 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 1:05 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-12 2:35 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 2:36 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 2:36 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 2:36 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 2:37 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 2:37 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 2:37 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 4:27 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 4:28 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 22:53 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-11 23:41 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-12 0:22 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 5:25 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 9:27 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-12 16:43 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-12 19:11 ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12 0:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-02-12 4:47 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 18:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-02-12 4:49 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12 4:40 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
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