From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John McCabe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Carbon Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:30:24 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:30:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8d8f8ca0f402e2fa87b550df572c1517"; logging-data="2803673"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IhbZB/AIJ13BZ4c6DKBsQ8XJEV3d8OM8=" User-Agent: PhoNews/3.9.1 (Android/8.1.0) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A2vm331kiSj6igvgAg+YWEqzewI= In-Reply-To: Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64151 List-Id: On 27/07/2022 21:39, Simon Wright wrote: >John McCabe writes: > >> In this thread that I mentioned (https:// >> github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/discussions/1720), I pointed >> out a few things that I'm unhappy with in C++ that, in Ada, are >> "solved" and have been for decades. > >"Avoid keyword duplication"?? e.g. multiple uses of 'with'? Come on Simon, give me a break; you know exceptions are allowed :-) I'm obviously referring to virtual, static, & and * (sure I mentioned symbols somewhere too :-)