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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,10444cff97404845 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: C like op= proposal Date: 1999/08/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 516284618 Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) References: <37B7D172.DCE02FFA@Maths.UniNe.CH> <87emh2l218.fsf@antinea.enst.fr> <7pd6th$2qj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7pecjk$std$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7pg9pr$aih$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > In article > , > Brian Rogoff 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.