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: 103376,e55245590c829bef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.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: _Type vs no _Type Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:24:38 +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> <82zktq4n9b.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <8jm1umFqn0U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: w00cPq0BvzOlRCSRJJEoeQ.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: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16326 Date: 2010-11-06T23:24:38+01:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:08:22 +0100, Niklas Holsti = a =C3=A9crit: >> SCL, the command language for the ICL/Fujitsu VME OS, is loosely bas= ed = >> on >> Algol 68 and has a facility to deal with this. A procedure's signatur= e >> includes for each parameter, as well as its identifier and type, an = >> optional >> "keyword". It is the latter that is used where Ada uses the formal = >> parameter >> identifier, in named parameter associations. Only the formal paramete= r >> identifier can be used within the procedure body. > > That's a nice feature. For named associations I often find that I woul= d = > like to identify parameters with words like "with", "of", "in", that a= re = > reserved words in Ada and so cannot be used as parameter names. Perhap= s = > such words could be allowed as "keywords" if this SCL feature were = > adopted in Ada. Got my Vote too! -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]