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: 103376,26e047a7a0709881 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.223.73 with SMTP id qs9mr1715898pbc.7.1342192790695; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni11589pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to initialize a matrix of one column only? Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:19:49 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1342192790 14355 192.74.137.71 (13 Jul 2012 15:19:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:19:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W3U6O3LRaNL0vKsSOb4GeO7iPIQ= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-07-13T11:19:49-04:00 List-Id: "Nasser M. Abbasi" writes: > Thanks John. I think I did browse some of these RM notes, but > I either missed it or did not understand it (sometimes > the RM writing is hard to understand for me). Trying to learn Ada by reading the RM is not a good idea -- it is indeed hard to understand. Read a textbook first. I like Barnes, but there are others. > But I guess on the other hand, one gets the strong typing > as a payback for all this extra typing. So may be one can't > complain too much. Sometimes verbosity gives you strong typing, but requiring named notation for one-element aggregates gives you nothing -- it's just bad language design. Even more so for zero-element aggregates. - Bob