From: BrianG <me@null.email>
Subject: Re: fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:09:41 -0400
Date: 2012-05-29T22:09:41-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jq3vh7$6nh$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jokbc7$k7p$1@munin.nbi.dk>
On 05/11/2012 08:37 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Ada should have had a "conversion" operator ("#" has been proposed), and
> clearly Ada.Strings.Unbounded should use it. But that gets shot down every
> time it is proposed (and it has been proposed for every language revision
> other than Ada 2012); mainly because a minority think that "+" is perfectly
> good for that. And another minority think that uses "+" on non-numeric types
> is *disgusting*, so we can never get the operators added to packages. A
> perfect impasse.
>
> Randy.
Why not unary "&", isn't that closer to the existing syntax?
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2012-05-09 13:06 fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-09 13:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-09 13:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-09 13:39 ` Patrick
2012-05-09 13:55 ` Egil Høvik
2012-05-10 2:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10 6:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-12 0:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-30 2:09 ` BrianG [this message]
2012-05-30 7:29 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-05-30 7:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-30 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-30 12:45 ` stefan-lucks
2012-05-30 13:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-30 19:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-30 23:00 ` BrianG
2012-06-21 16:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10 8:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-05-15 6:16 ` Simon Wright
2012-05-10 11:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-10 14:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 14:47 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 15:11 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-10 16:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 18:41 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-05-11 8:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 20:11 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 21:17 ` tmoran
2012-05-10 18:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-11 7:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-05-10 12:31 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-05-10 13:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-10 13:38 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 23:42 ` Zhu Qun-Ying
2012-05-11 6:05 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-05-11 3:01 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-11 7:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-11 7:32 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-11 7:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-13 3:11 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-13 10:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-16 15:00 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 18:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-21 16:35 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-21 17:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-23 16:01 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-23 16:12 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 15:31 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 16:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-21 17:23 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-21 18:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-21 19:21 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-23 17:59 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-23 18:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-23 17:39 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-23 18:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-11 3:09 ` NatarovVI
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