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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6e97963d32ee242 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-23 01:39:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <254c16a.0305210726.485125de@posting.google.com> <3ecdd3bf.1149272@news.btclick.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1053679151 19169 129.241.83.78 (23 May 2003 08:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 08:39:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37675 Date: 2003-05-23T08:39:11+00:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: > > In most cases it *is* just a syntactic sugar issue, but it's a very > big issue when trying to explain to C++ and Java (and Visual Basic) > users how you would do something equivalent in Ada to what they've > already learned. The fact that Ada "method" calls look absolutely > nothing like what you would expect an object-oriented language's > method calls to look like is, in my view, a big issue in relation to > Ada's acceptance by less broad-minded developers. I can understand this, but what I'm scared of is that we get two overlapping syntaxes which can be confusing? But I need to read the AI again because I don't understand how this new syntax works. > As David points out, it *is* very nice to be able to see a pop-up > window of what options are available for an object as soon as you type > the ".". I find this argument a bit odd. Sure it is nice, but to change the language so that IDE's are easier to make is a bit strange for me :-) -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/