From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Peculiarities of "of" syntax
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:01:36 -0500
Date: 2020-01-11T21:01:36-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc5zhho2kf.fsf@shell02.theworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56cb7bc3-b966-4708-8cc7-657712d77047@googlegroups.com
"Alejandro R. Mosteo" <amosteo@unizar.es> writes:
> So the question would be, with a correct array, why a name is required
> instead of an expression, or why a qualified expression is good enough
> but an unambiguous plain expression is not.
The real question is, why are "name" and "expression" distinguished at
all in the syntax? You're right: there's really no good reason
for this. (Not specific to for/of.)
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-12 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-11 18:05 Peculiarities of "of" syntax Alejandro R. Mosteo
2020-01-11 20:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-01-11 21:45 ` Robert A Duff
2020-01-12 1:38 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2020-01-12 2:01 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2020-01-12 11:27 ` Simon Wright
2020-01-13 23:32 ` Randy Brukardt
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox