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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Initialization and Finalization of limited object "returned" by a
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.