Re: Ripple effect

["Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>]

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> I recall that during the Ada-9X revision process, it was proposed that
> primitive operators of a type have this kind of visibility. IIRC, one of
> the reasons that this was not accepted was that it would lead to Ripple
> effects: adding or removing a unit from a context clause could change
> one legal program to a different legal program.

This has nothing to do with the topic.  But my understanding is that
the Beaujolais effect was named because Jean Ichbiah offered a bottle
of Beaujolais wine to anyone who could find a certain anomaly in the
language.  So are you saying that if someone finds a Ripple effect,
you're going to offer them a bottle of .... ???

Aaahh... I don't even think they sell it any more.

                              -- Adam