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Le Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:34:28 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> Down with accessors. The language should simply support sugars like:
>
>    F (X) :=3D G (Y)  -->  F[Index] (X, G (Y))
>
> After prefix notation was introduced, there is no reason why other
> shortcuts should not be allowed.

This is not a matter of sugar of shortcuts, that's a matter of being  =

explicit and clean. Formally speaking, parameters of a function is a  =

tuple, the same for function result. No need for more (but not for the  =

actual Ada any way).


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D  [Ep=
igrams on  =

Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University]
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=E2=80=9D [Idem]
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