From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:24:41 -0500
Date: 2012-04-16T22:24:41-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jminps$2mb$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: szik5e8e6n4m$.dgyqh41b6k6b$.dlg@40tude.net
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
news:szik5e8e6n4m$.dgyqh41b6k6b$.dlg@40tude.net...
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>> Amado-Alves claimed that "when" and "others" show that the number
>> of reserved words in Ada is too large, because they are good
>> candidates for identifiers.
>
> Surely "when" and "at" are prefect names for a formal parameter of the
> type
> Time.
I was going to say that; I tend to write such parameters from time-to-time,
and after the compiler complains, I change them to something wordier. But
that's not necessarily helpful, as formal parameter names can be (and ought
to be) used in calls:
Open_Gates (To_Percent => 0.75, When => Clock + 3600.00);
(Not to mention us compiler-writers, which want to have enumerations named
"Array" and "Record" and "Access" for describing kinds of types.)
Randy.
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2012-04-15 10:27 [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-04-15 11:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-04-16 10:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-15 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 6:59 ` tonyg
2012-04-17 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-15 14:05 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-15 14:21 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-15 14:54 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-15 15:34 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-17 5:42 ` Brad Moore
2012-04-17 16:11 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:33 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 19:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 21:42 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 22:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:00 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-17 21:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-04-15 23:53 ` Brian Drummond
2012-04-16 10:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2012-04-16 11:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 13:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 15:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 15:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 17:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 21:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 3:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 4:43 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-17 7:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:10 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-18 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-19 14:22 ` Shark8
2012-04-17 15:48 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 19:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 16:01 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 17:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 3:24 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2012-04-17 3:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-16 19:55 ` sbelmont700
2012-04-17 0:48 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-17 21:59 ` anon
2012-05-13 4:14 ` David Thompson
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