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,fccea7ca608399cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nx02.iad.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Vector of Vectors. Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:41:57 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <496e8418$0$25733$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <6t8gc1F9ej88U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1232210517 32713 192.74.137.71 (17 Jan 2009 16:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:41:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A9iz4rNXZd0KP/pXhar971/6GNU= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4383 Date: 2009-01-17T11:41:57-05:00 List-Id: Ivan Levashew writes: > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > Top-posting is what actually happens when one uses downwards closures. Nice analogy. I agree 100% > Procedure name should be optional, I think. Yes. Like a lambda expression in Lisp, but preferably with less verbose syntax. Requiring the body of a loop to have a name is an annoyance. What are you going to call it? The_Loop_Body. Or something equally meaningless. - Bob