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-Thread: 103376,1b41412c7bc28c47 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!out04b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suffix _T for types found good References: <2e9ebb23-a68b-43cf-8871-febcb173f951@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <4899d2af$0$19731$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <9LmdncTBAPGV5jbVnZ2dnUVZ_sTinZ2d@comcast.com> <3%Wqk.17251$LG4.5286@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com> From: Stephen Leake Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:48:55 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nw7WWPV/GveCzFbTONzvR0RnvRI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 008bb48ad32aec74cf41811023 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1715 Date: 2008-08-21T05:48:55-04:00 List-Id: Gary Scott writes: > Stephen Leake wrote: >> Huh? The problem is that the language rules forbid this: >> >> Buffer : Buffer; >> >> That is what we would _like_ the language to allow. > > what? that looks completely ambiguous in terms of readability. you > must know some arcane rule to interpret it. The object is before the colon, the type is after it. Nothing "arcane" about that. It's just Ada. Different from C, of course. -- -- Stephe