"Serge D. Mechveliani" <[email protected]> writes:

| Another note on the Spad language:
| for a record 
|                         Foo(coef: Integer, exp: Integer, root: Integer),
| its setting syntax by   [1, 3, 2]  :: Foo
| is a bug farm.
| Is not it?
| The syntax like         [coef := 1, exp := 3, root := 2]

the suggested syntax already has a valid meaning: it sets three
variables and return a List Integer.  It does not look like a better
alternative to the current syntax.

| 
| (replace `:=' with something appropriate)
| is much more safe. And here the named fieds can be transposed, the 
| programmer will not need to remember the order of, say, 6 fields.  
| 
| Regards, 
| 
| ------
| Sergei
| [email protected]

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