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: 103376,2078ce7aac45af5b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.84.34 with SMTP id v2mr8989779pay.38.1352772705194; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:11:45 -0800 (PST) Path: 6ni78244pbd.1!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada202X : Adding functors Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:11:42 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <0114d327-9f9f-4ad2-9281-56331d11a90c@googlegroups.com> <2bb9e5fa-04a2-4073-bca1-1739ce0580f1@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c90e089bb12f916d4cef1340590eea0f"; logging-data="10636"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xxfdWvK5MxB+xCNDjDgDdqARlQ+5hV/E=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <2bb9e5fa-04a2-4073-bca1-1739ce0580f1@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:uEOGrcuDkxcy90q192sA5NyiOW8= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-11-12T19:11:42-07:00 List-Id: On 11/12/2012 04:44 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote: > > Being able to say "This is a variable, but OH LOOK I can use it like a > function" certainly does seem cool, in a way. We have this in Ada; it's called an array. -- Jeff Carter "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 66