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,b9c1962801ad6b73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-23 06:10:52 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: Fussy Standard: what is modulo Address? User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:10:22 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <3e2f1663$0$33931$bed64819@news.gradwell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33372 Date: 2003-01-23T14:10:22+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau writes: > Robert A Duff wrote: > > what it must mean. What else could "address modulo mumble" mean besides > > the "mod" operator on type Address? So I disagree that it's a bug. > > Bob, I don't necessarily agree with Victor in general, but... > > "modulo" means "mod" is fairly plain, but > "mod" means "mod" is plainer. :-) Well, perhaps, but I expect people to understand that "multiply" or "times" in an English sentence means the "*" operator of whatever type we're talking about. Likewise, "modulo" refers to the "mod" operator. You wouldn't say ``This is "*"'d by that.'' You would say ``This is multiplied by that.'' Anyway, you *might* convince me that I should have written it more clearly. But I doubt that you could convince the ARG that it is important enough to change in the next revision of the RM. Especially when the AARM annotations make it 100% clear what the author meant. - Bob