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 16:43:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp4.savvis.net!uunet!dfw.uu.net!ash.uu.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate Date: 23 May 2003 19:43:01 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <254c16a.0305210726.485125de@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1053733381 14238 199.172.62.241 (23 May 2003 23:43:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 23:43:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37724 Date: 2003-05-23T19:43:01-04:00 List-Id: "Steve" writes: > Yeah, I've mentioned this before, and nobody seems to agree with me, but I > still hate dealing with "freezing rules" to figure out where dispatching > operations end. You don't need to deal with the freezing rules in order to see which operations are dispatching. The freezing rules are an annoyance when *writing* code, I admit. But, in a legal piece of Ada code, the freezing rules have no effect on which operations are dispatching. - Bob