From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,6aa1ec264ce25142
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Received: by 10.180.19.68 with SMTP id c4mr503821wie.4.1346260851492;
        Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 q11ni377878396wiw.1!nntp.google.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail
From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Real syntax problems in Ada
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:20:46 -0700
Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net
Message-ID: <k1lj1h$1fhp$1@adenine.netfront.net>
References: <1p5r39cusgc1n$.18nj9sytckk6$.dlg@40tude.net>
 <289703e7-1fba-41ce-b781-9e58ff2ec7df@googlegroups.com>
 <1w3xr2kbz8a19$.wpfoz4p1j1sb.dlg@40tude.net> <k1jdol$id7$1@munin.nbi.dk>
 <a7fajtasftcd.wpdq5ukic2ny.dlg@40tude.net>
 <Pine.LNX.4.64.1208291146070.20257@medsec1.medien.uni-weimar.de>
 <503e1a1d$0$6572$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.20.60.112
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1346260850 48697 184.20.60.112 (29 Aug 2012
 17:20:50 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:20:50 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;
 rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0
In-Reply-To: <503e1a1d$0$6572$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: 2012-08-29T10:20:46-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 08/29/2012 06:33 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> Why would a "(" be more readable? I'd like to 2nd any motion
> for bracketing, but not in *this* way. One issue seems to be:
> "Where do the generic formals end?"

Right. Using "Name : thing" notation could offer a solution to this:

Reductions : generic
    -- generic formal parameters (or "null;" if there are none)
Reductions : package is
    ...
Reductions : private
    ...
Reductions : end;

The generic formal part ends when the name is repeated. This also means "with" 
is not needed for generic formal subprograms and packages.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You can never forget too much about C++."
115

--- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---