Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:45:14 -0500, Wes Groleau wrote:

> adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> The fuss English speakers make about
>> the order of words for programming
>> syntax is artificial for every language,
>> and not necessarily the way the rest
>> of the world does it.
> 
> But he makes a good point about not being schizo about it
> within a single language.  I'll have to admit I never noticed
> the inconsistency of task/package/function/procedure coming before
> the name and <type>/constant coming after.

Maybe it is because they define non-first class objects. My *empirical*
theory is that Ada has:

X : Type ...;

Class-type X ...;

The second form defines either a 2nd class object or both 2nd class object
and its single 1st class instance.

Exception:

Label : loop ... end loop;

Should be sort of:

loop Label is
   ...
end loop;

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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