Re: ASCL a doomed idea?

["Mark Lundquist" <mlundquist2@attbi.com>]

"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9v37s0$cdmva$3@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de...
> "Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:3C13D980.748CCCDA@acm.org...
>
> >Lists are not strings
>
> [all together] "Oh yes they are!"
>
> > and use different nomenclature.
>
> [all together] "Oh no they don't!"
>
> Or, rather, a string is a kind of list (do you really have a problem with
> that concept?),

He's not the only one...

Look, you have said that you conceive of a list as a "store" into which
things are written and out of which things are read.  Are you truly saying
that if I write

    Put_Line ("Hello, world");

that you think of the thing I am passing as an instance of a kind such a
store?

> and what the heck is the problem with using the same
> nomenclature for both (as far as possible) to help avoid confusing the
poor
> Ada programmer?

The problem is, as Jeff says, that they are not the same thing, and in
fact have little to do with each other.  So if anything, you're going to
confuse people *more* if your nomenclature is at variance with standard
terminology for lists (assuming that there is such a thing...).

MHO,
-- mark