From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:32:54 -0400
Date: 2004-06-21T12:32:54-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087835574.625787@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2i5dd0lu0i3a8bokfh7916r4j67g42ri4o@4ax.com>
Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> So it is inconsistent.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
> That's another philosophy, the C++'s one: quick and dirty, or rather
> "let's first make it dirty, maybe it happens to be quick".
As opposed to Ada's "if we don't have it you don't need it",
like leaving procedure pointers out of Ada 83.
> Huh, how is it better than Ada's limitation on tagged types?
Access to automatic variables from local classes is not provided
because it causes implemenation difficulties which would spread
throught many aspects of the language. Ada's limitation on tagged
types has no such technical basis; it is there because someone
could accidentally use the construct incorrectly.
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2004-06-16 15:40 A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer) Abby
2004-06-16 16:21 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 16:26 ` Abby
2004-06-16 17:01 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 17:18 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-17 6:57 ` Brian May
2004-06-17 12:44 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 17:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-23 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-16 19:51 ` Simon Wright
2004-06-16 17:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-16 22:25 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-17 0:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-17 7:45 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-17 14:20 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-18 18:07 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-06-18 18:37 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-19 2:11 ` Brian May
2004-06-19 11:25 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-06-19 1:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-19 11:17 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-06-16 18:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-16 20:16 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 21:05 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 13:26 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-17 14:19 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 15:24 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-23 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-17 19:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-16 22:48 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-17 10:25 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-17 14:33 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-17 23:15 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-23 21:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-17 8:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-17 12:19 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 14:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-17 14:17 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 22:51 ` Brian May
2004-06-18 7:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-18 12:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-18 9:14 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-06-18 12:24 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-18 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-18 13:16 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-18 14:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-18 16:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-19 9:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-21 3:30 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-21 8:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-21 16:32 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2004-06-22 2:19 ` David Starner
2004-06-22 13:03 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-23 21:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-24 20:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-25 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-25 17:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-26 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-29 0:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-29 9:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-29 18:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-23 21:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24 1:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-24 15:19 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-24 16:04 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-24 21:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-25 15:30 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-25 18:16 ` Bob Spooner
2004-06-25 19:23 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-26 15:26 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-28 4:52 ` Steve
2004-07-04 19:06 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-29 0:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24 21:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-16 16:49 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-17 10:58 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-17 3:48 ` Steve
2004-06-17 10:39 ` Björn Persson
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