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Subject: Re: fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:54:44 +0200
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Le Wed, 30 May 2012 09:29:04 +0200, Niklas Holsti  =

<niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> a =C3=A9crit:
> Please, not "&", that would make calls look too much like calls in C  =

> with pointer parameters. "&" being the C "address-of" operator. "&" is=
  =

> also a large glyph, as tall as upper-case letters, making a following =
 =

> identifier harder to recognize at a glance. How about "~"? Meaning, I =
 =

> want "approximately" this value, but converted as necessary.

=E2=80=9C~=E2=80=9D also means =E2=80=9Cnegation=E2=80=9D to people accu=
stomed to some languages.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity