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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Latest suggestion for 202x
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:36:57 +0200
Date: 2019-06-16T23:36:57+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qe6cps$6u5$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 89a5a38e-ac42-4418-a694-fda5affefe75@googlegroups.com

On 2019-06-16 22:57, Optikos wrote:

> And because I forgot to mention it on a prior posting above (although it has nothing to do with ML family), PL/1 follows Fortran's lead of a(i) syntax, meaning that as far as array syntax goes there is a Fortran–PL/1–Ada continuity in constrast to the Algol a[i] contorted abuse of mathematics' [ ] vector/matrix notation.

Some books deploy () for matrices too, however [] is more frequent. 
Though for sequences, pairs, tuples etc it is almost always (). So Ada 
83 was pretty much consistent with mathematical notation in aggregates too.

BTW, in mathematics [x] or |_x_| denotes real number truncation.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-16 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-15 23:59 Latest suggestion for 202x Micah Waddoups
2019-06-16  5:14 ` Jerry
2019-06-16  7:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-16 10:22 ` Egil H H
2019-06-16 16:54   ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-16 20:09     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17  6:54     ` Egil H H
2019-06-17  7:42       ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-17 12:01     ` Mart van de Wege
2019-06-17 13:35       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-06-17 15:20         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17 15:32           ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-17 16:43             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-17 21:38           ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-18 15:48             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-20 22:21             ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-21  9:42               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-21 18:12                 ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-21 18:43                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-21 20:24                     ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-22  6:54                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-22  8:43                         ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-22  9:00                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-22 17:44                         ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-22 18:34                           ` Bill Findlay
2019-06-22 18:37                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-23  7:38                             ` G.B.
2019-06-23  8:29                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-23 18:34                               ` Optikos
2019-06-23 19:20                                 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-22 20:48                           ` Optikos
2019-06-22 20:53                             ` Optikos
2019-06-23 17:42                             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-24  5:07                               ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-24  5:40                                 ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-24  7:16                                   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-26 18:00                                     ` Stephen Leake
2019-06-24 13:07                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-24 11:12                                 ` Stefan.Lucks
2019-06-24 12:06                                   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-06-24 20:22                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-24 20:32                                       ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-24 20:47                                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2019-06-24 13:10                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2019-06-22  8:36                   ` Randy Brukardt
2019-06-22 17:39                     ` Keith Thompson
2019-06-16 19:34 ` Optikos
2019-06-16 20:10   ` John Perry
2019-06-16 20:57     ` Optikos
2019-06-16 21:36       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2019-06-17 16:48     ` G. B.
2019-06-17 17:12     ` Paul Rubin
2019-06-16 21:41 ` Lucretia
2019-06-19  2:36 ` Micah Waddoups
2019-06-19 11:14   ` Lucretia
2019-06-19 11:45     ` briot.emmanuel
2019-06-19 14:34       ` Optikos
2019-06-19 19:29         ` Lucretia
2019-06-19 16:12   ` G. B.
2019-06-23 20:17 ` Per Sandberg
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