From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/03/29
Date: 2000-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc4s9pr8o6.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87u2hq857e.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
>
> Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
>
> > FWIW, I don't like ".all" -- I prefer Pascal's "^".
>
> A missing or a surplus dereference operation can make a huge
> difference, and sometimes, both variants are legal Ada code. So it's
> probably better to have a clear mark for this, and "^" is perhaps too
> easily overlooked.
But in Ada, dereferences are *optional* in most contexts! And all
programmers leave them out when optional, because ".all" is so big and
ugly and non-intuitive. My point was that I agree with you that
dereferences make a huge difference, and so should be explicit.
Mumble^.Next is plenty explicit for me.
>... Personally, I prefer U+2191 (UPWARDS ARROW) to
> ".all", but the former would involve a quite radical change. ;)
Well, the "^" of Pascal originally *was* an up arrow.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-27 0:00 Why is it Called a Package? Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Comment from the trenchs Robert Brantley
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Brantley
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Why is it Called a Package? Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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