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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.151.140 with SMTP id uq12mr150245pab.23.1405101350727; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:55:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.153.74 with SMTP id ve10mr130702igb.8.1405101350424; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!r10no1083170igi.0!news-out.google.com!bp9ni7igb.0!nntp.google.com!h18no153414igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:55:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <58Kvv.9105$Zt3.1101@fx02.iad> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Comments requested for a couple of Ada-Comments submissions From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:55:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:187525 Date: 2014-07-11T10:55:49-07:00 List-Id: 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