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: 103376,8f802583e5c84fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: String filtering Date: 05 Oct 2005 07:25:19 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1j92wa9843ylq.16j89wuqatbaj$.dlg@40tude.net> <1b54lwg8s1gk8.1t3jp1cmc2x32$.dlg@40tude.net> <1128236249.692858.50370@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1128511519 9408 192.74.137.71 (5 Oct 2005 11:25:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:25:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5401 Date: 2005-10-05T07:25:19-04:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen writes: > Robert A Duff a �crit : > > If I ran the circus, I would call both kinds of subprograms "procedures" > > and use the reserved word "procedure" for both syntaxes. What Ada calls > > "function" I would call "value-returning procedure". > > > Hmmm... A bit reminiscent of Ada 1980, isn't it? Yes, exactly, except that Ada 80 had these in addition to functions; I would prefer instead-of. - Bob