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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1e3f2eac5c026e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-22 09:10:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!216.166.71.14!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:10:50 -0600 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:10:49 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference) References: <468D78E4EE5C6A4093A4C00F29DF513D04B82B08@VS2.hdi.tvcabo> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.214.193 X-Trace: sv3-MNAEfI8vrBvLoD016RCRF1qW9Xthqycqk/EuNSgeNBH3BIdrFyp9GGHWAcfYx98CrIOBrZuSblQr9KD!I40XldOzbvRDDK8frJn/bccSagzqKnnq7yt52X2D8WvqxYzr+iZ7N8/K2NpFMg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3701 Date: 2003-12-22T12:10:49-05:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > So create a new keyword, contraction of "with" and "use" --> "wise" > > What's so terrible, is that I'm not sure if I mean that as a joke... Or within or whereas. Not really joking either. Once you realize that the current meaning of use has to be kept for use inside program units, and for odd upward compatibility cases, and that there is a large population of Ada programmers who often write with without use, then the syntactic sugar of the proposal is just that, rather arbitrary syntax designed to look nice. (I could of course suggest syntax that doesn't meet that criteria, but why?) -- Robert I. Eachus "The war on terror is a different kind of war, waged capture by capture, cell by cell, and victory by victory. Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty." -- George W. Bush