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: a07f3367d7,657568723e59e45b X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.66.86.102 with SMTP id o6mr8947395paz.41.1351478419495; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Path: s9ni66480pbb.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Basic issue with dotted notation and tagged types Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:46:12 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1iwm9zh3ctl5y$.197u4rcmyrxyh$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jxc7NwPwyonMtGGqk8Yy5Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.02 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-10-22T15:46:12+02:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:02:16 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > From a wider (and simpler) point of view a record component is just a = = > pair of primitive operations (getter/setter) on the record type. That = = > makes them conflicting with any user-defined primitive operations of = > same signature. That's why I can't make my mind, as I feel both the same as you and the = = same as J.Pierre too. J.P Rosen wrote: > and you are always free not to use it without losing any functionality= . > OTOH, you would have no other way to access a subcomponent. -- = =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