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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,e55245590c829bef X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to? Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:59:20 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <79ed13b7-4c55-40c4-9f66-e30ed94e5591@e14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <4cd0b0ed$0$6775$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gPTBNfhtfsEpv8wDIvwlLw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.63 (Win32) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15154 Date: 2010-11-03T02:59:20+01:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:46:37 +0100, Georg Bauhaus = a =C3=A9crit: > Sill, a different grammar(!) might lead to better visual > distinction. (Which words are types' names etc.) > A grammatical approach seems a lot better to me than > injecting a mechanical sublanguage into identifiers!!! There is exactly *no* grammatical approach to this. This is the core of = = the rationals I gave yesterday (or the day before). If such an approach was there in natural languages, I would be glad to u= se = it; I've never felt the need to reinvent the plural for computer languag= es = (except when that plural is unluckily invariable, and when that occurs, = I = feel free to play a bit and do some dirty things with grammar, especiall= y = with English and its never-plural adjectives) -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens.