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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latest suggestion for 202x Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:42:18 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <728c4668-8fa0-4a57-a502-2bf476fc3940@googlegroups.com> <4908c3e3-18dc-4953-bf26-46f160d2ebfd@googlegroups.com> <9dcf22a2-2255-4089-b1f0-93e31448415e@googlegroups.com> <86h88obeu0.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> <39e749cd-de5c-44fa-b8ec-50d36f3bd52c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56700 Date: 2019-06-21T11:42:18+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-06-21 00:21, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Keith Thompson" wrote in message > news:lnef3rnb8d.fsf@kst-u.example.com... > ... >> I'm not at all persuaded by the argument that array indexing is >> interchangeable with function calls. >> >> A(I) = 42; > > If A is a container, A(I) *is* a function call. QED. :-) It is many function calls actually. I wish it were just one: Array_Type'Component_Setter (A, I, 42) I think Keith probably meant something else, since it is self-evident that array indexing is decomposable into calls to properly typed subprograms (differently to, say, object construction). -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de