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 20:43:35 +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/60.7.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56704 Date: 2019-06-21T20:43:35+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-06-21 20:12, Keith Thompson wrote: > I *can't* replace A by a function without modifying the code that uses > it. In short if I can't do something then I don't need it, sour grapes... > I suppose containers weaken that argument No, it is no argument regardless. If Ada has problems with array abstraction, and it has, that is irrelevant to the point that this is the *same* abstraction. A language that syntactically distinguish array calls and function calls breaks the abstraction or lacks it completely. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de