From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: C like op= proposal
Date: 1999/08/23
Date: 1999-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcciu668f98.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7pg9pr$aih$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article
> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908182033010.14398-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> > > The pseudo-variable proposal seems entirely horrible to me,
> and
> > > indeed was not discussed at all. I can see all kinds of
> abuse
> > > and very little gain from this syntactic vinegar :-)
> >
> > ROTFL!
> >
> > That little expression (syntactic vinegar) was the high point
> of a bland
> > day. Is that an original Dewarism?
>
> no, no, that's as old as programming languages as far as I know,
> certainly it dates back to the 60's .. :-) but i appreciate the
> ROTFL, anything to brighten up an otherwise dull day!
During the design of Ada 95, somebody called the "select ... then abort"
syntax "syntactic poison", which made this dangerous and controversial
feature more acceptable to some reviewers -- it had previously had a
more innocuous-looking syntax (which I can't remember).
- Bob
--
Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-15 0:00 C like op= proposal Brian Rogoff
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-08-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1999-08-19 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-20 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-08-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-08-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-17 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-08-17 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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