Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems

From: Alex Colvin (alexc_at_std.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:52:19 +0000 (UTC)

>The empty parens are not allowed in Ada. Bob Eachus or someone else might
>be able to give some of the rationale. It's a case similar to the choice
>of () for array indexing rather than []. In Ada, a function result is
>considered conceptually similar to a constant, as are enumeration
>literals, and many of the same rules apply to them and their use. I
>suspect the syntax is intended to reinforce this.

I suspect that the use of () instead of [] has more to do with 7-bit
character sets for European languages. See
        http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-02-01.html
and ISO 646. Same problem that gave us C trigraphs 

-- 
	mac the naïf

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