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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: class wide iterable (and indexable)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:45:05 +0100
Date: 2019-01-06T13:45:05+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q0st8i$n27$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 809a445d-cf73-4525-a732-67dbf24e8394@googlegroups.com

On 2019-01-06 12:30, George Shapovalov wrote:
> On Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 11:19:17 AM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> It was and is fiercely opposed all the time!
> But you and many others agree that its a good idea.

But there are also ones who don't even accept the notion of a set of 
types, programming in terms of, still clutching to bare procedural 
decomposition.

I am happy we have got Ada 95. But maybe all the mess introduced in Ada 
2005, 2012 and yet to come with 202X is the backlash for that short 
period of luck...

> There is that expression, that old theories do not get overturned, rather they die out with their hosts (I think it was first said in Physics, circa 1920-30s, during that Quantum discussion period, but I am now across so many disciplines, I cannot be sure). So, if we just outlive them.. :)

Yep, Max Planck:

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and 
making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually 
die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

>> (I have a conspiracy theory. All is because the keyword "interface" will
>> not need to be reserved anymore! (:-))
> How so? Tagged types allow this, and both "type" and "tagged" are reserved words.

Yes. Interface is an abstract tagged type, nothing more except for a 
silly constraint not to provide anything functional.

> Besides, if that would be a corner issue, the opposition could be placated by proposing to keep it reserved by some mandate :).

That is my hope. (:-))

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-06 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-02 15:48 class wide iterable (and indexable) George Shapovalov
2019-01-02 17:39 ` Simon Wright
2019-01-02 18:11   ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-03  8:52     ` Simon Wright
2019-01-03  9:30       ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-03 16:45         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-01-04  4:32       ` Shark8
2019-01-05  9:03         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-03 22:56     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-04  0:00       ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-04  8:43         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-04 12:20           ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-05 23:29             ` Jere
2019-01-05 23:50               ` Jere
2019-01-06  9:34                 ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-06 10:19                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-06 11:30                     ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-06 12:45                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2019-01-06 13:18                         ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-06 14:13                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-06 16:33                             ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-06 18:29                               ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-06 20:32                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-06 21:47                                   ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-07  9:37                                     ` Niklas Holsti
2019-01-07 16:24                                       ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-06 20:18                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-06 21:58                                 ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-07  8:28                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-05  9:21           ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-05 10:07             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-05 18:17               ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-05 20:07                 ` Simon Wright
2019-01-05 20:41                   ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-07 21:07               ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-08  9:51                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-08 19:25                   ` Björn Lundin
2019-01-08 23:26                   ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-09 17:06                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-09 23:38                       ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-10  8:53                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-10 22:14                           ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-11  9:09                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-14 22:59                               ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-15  9:34                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-18 15:48                                   ` Olivier Henley
2019-01-18 16:08                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-18 16:29                                       ` Olivier Henley
2019-01-18 16:54                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-18 17:31                                           ` Olivier Henley
2019-01-18 18:51                                             ` Shark8
2019-01-18 20:09                                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-21 23:15                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-22  8:56                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-22 22:00                                         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-23  8:14                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-22 17:04                                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-01-22 22:02                                         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-23 18:00                                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-01-23 20:14                                           ` Shark8
2019-01-23 22:47                                             ` Randy Brukardt
2019-01-24 17:11                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-28 15:54                                               ` Shark8
2019-01-28 17:23                                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-08 18:32                 ` G. B.
2019-01-05 17:05             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-01-05 20:18               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-05 21:09               ` Shark8
2019-01-06 10:11                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-01-05 20:46             ` Shark8
2019-01-06  9:43               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-01-26 22:11 ` George Shapovalov
2019-01-26 22:14   ` George Shapovalov
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2019-01-29  7:45 Randy Brukardt
2019-01-29 19:34 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-01-29 20:26   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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