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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Negative float problem
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:11:15 +0100
Date: 2005-10-30T10:11:13+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <roxitrmok2qh.4do9qd40gtju$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: djsnpq$1oa$1@sunnews.cern.ch

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:34:03 +0200, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> So - why not having ADL in Ada? :)

C++ compiler matches things bottom up. This is not sufficient for Ada which
represents a more general case. So ADL might be more problematic in Ada.
Much depends on what kind of prefix can stay left of the name. Then in Ada
"." and "::" are overloaded. Further, parameterless function call is
indistinguishable from name.

Personally, I'd prefer simpler visibility rules and more consistency checks
preventing operation hiding, so than one could just "use" almost
everything. Ada's advantage of having packages instead of wild insertions
through #include, should be better used, IMO.

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-26 18:32 Negative float problem Luke
2005-10-26 19:05 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-10-26 20:42 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27  8:05   ` Robert I. Eachus
2005-10-27 14:48     ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-27 15:07       ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-27 15:47         ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-28  8:34           ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-29 23:39             ` Brian May
2005-10-30  9:11             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2005-10-31  9:46               ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-10-31 14:20                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-01 11:06                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-01 14:06                     ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-01 14:46                       ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-01 16:04                         ` Hyman Rosen
2005-11-01 17:19                           ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-02  0:13                         ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02  6:59                           ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-02 13:24                             ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 15:22                               ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-01 15:12                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-02  0:28                         ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02  4:16                           ` Steve Whalen
2005-11-14  7:26                           ` Dave Thompson
2005-11-20  0:19                             ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-20 11:07                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-01 14:27                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-01 15:19                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-01 19:44                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-02  9:04                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-02 11:17                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-02 13:03                               ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-02 14:20                                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-11-02 20:15                                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-03 13:06                                     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-11-03 18:32                                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-03  9:51                                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-03 13:20                                     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-11-03 15:02                                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-03 18:55                                         ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-11-04  9:32                                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-03 20:59                                     ` Simon Wright
2005-11-02 13:32                               ` Robert A Duff
2005-11-02 14:44                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-02 13:47                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-27 18:33       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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