Re: Ada syntax questions

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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>But you cannot rid of X(...) syntax, where X is an object.

That's a prefixed view, of course. No one would want to get rid of that.

>It is not only indexing, e.g. in declarations:
>    X : T (Y);

That's not an expression and is not resolved (that is, there is no possible 
overloading).

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> Then what is wrong with indexing?

Nothing is "wrong" with it, it is just redundant. As others have noted here, 
both indexes and function calls represent a mapping. What's the point of 
having two ways to represent a mapping? In an Ada-like language, there's no 
syntax nor semantic difference.

Ada (and most other languages) are full of redundant stuff. Simpilfy the 
basics and then one has more room for interesting stuff (static analysis, 
parallel execution, etc.).

                            Randy.