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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,37cd0e215c11beb,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: okellogg Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Concatenate enumeration Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0ff42bdb-63a1-4fc2-bb44-e8d89a82bc68@j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.128.202.189 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1287776966 8614 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2010 19:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.128.202.189; posting-account=a23u_AkAAAB-Xz81hSqodYsmJRrMwioK User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 SUSE/3.6.10-0.3.1 Firefox/3.6.10,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14685 Date: 2010-10-22T12:49:26-07:00 List-Id: In https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/33ce43bfeafb2681/237f979efee731d3, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Robert A Duff" wrote in message > news:wcctywksu8t.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... > ... > > >> You can't. Enumeration types are not extensible. > > > Extensible enumeration types were proposed for Ada 9X, > > but were dropped. > > And were proposed again for Ada 2005, and were dropped again. See > AI95-0261-1. I doubt it will ever be proposed again. I wonder why this has not been picked up - especially when looking at all the new features that are making it into Ada2012. Oliver