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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Function definitions - with clarification Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:04:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <680e9015-b2d8-4c65-a517-98524d2d6d36@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="09a3d9cee9266239e5bbed6e5ce10563"; logging-data="22918"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19fzy1dZzU0Tkh07uVg0atMYkV/clkwOsI=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P7HhZytJtnitif2w7lWooeMDKxg= sha1:jgtwGVjEYjm6lgdA/q1Mlf/+mNI= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20532 Date: 2014-06-22T22:04:38+01:00 List-Id: montgrimpulo writes: > Direct reply to Simon Clubley: > > I think you have to live with my attitude. Why should I always repeat > myself despite my problem description is now stable. Concerning the > level of Ada knowledge it is your level which governs the > communication. An Example: If people talk to a foreigner who > apparently does not speak their mother tongue very well, they tend to > fall into something like "baby-talk". However this is no help in > making progress. No one here has to live with your attitude. You will very soon find that you are talking to yourself. > Concerning my questions: I expected something like: Under my > assumptions of ... my suggestion for a solution looks like ... . But we probably aren't interested in your problem, so why should we spend our time guessing what it might be and inventing solutions to what may not be your problem at all? > Then I would be able to see how I was understood, and to learn what is > possible in Ada. Seems pretty clear that so far you are not understood.