Re: Comments requested for a couple of Ada-Comments submissions

[Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>]

On Friday, July 11, 2014 10:26:44 AM UTC-7, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> >     A := (C => D, E => F, others => A.others);

> To me, this looks too much like a normal aggregate. Only at the end,
> from the new form "A.others", do we see that it is a partial aggregate.

> Also, the duplication of the word "others" is a bit ugly, and "A.others"
> does not really mean anything by itself; its meaning depends on the
> components listed before the "others" part. How about:
> 
>    (C => D, E => F, then others => A)
> 
> or
> 
>    (C => D, E => F, and others => A)

Something like this would be clearer:

    (C => D, E => F, others from A)

Unfortunately "from" isn't a reserved word and is already used as a parameter name in many language-defined packages.

So now I'm looking at the reserved word list to see if there's a way to use existing reserved words to convey this concept in an English-like fashion.

    (C => D, E => F, others out of A)

    (C => D, E => F, use all others in A)

But those are the best I could come up with.  (OK, I'm not really serious here.  But I do see your point about A.others.)

                           -- Adam