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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:13:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> I wrote that package to use one of the Ada 2012 extensions
> (aspects). The XML demonstrates that GNAT's internal representation, as
> well as supporting aspects (a given), is exported to the ASIS
> environment in a usable way: the fact you can see <aspect_specification>
> in the output indicates (to me!) that there is an enumeration literal
> An_Aspect_Specification in the GNAT ASIS library.
>

Ok

> Likewise, after further invesitigation, An_Expression_Function_Declaration.
> 
> Of course this is all GNAT-specific; I don't know what the success rate
> is for AdaCore implementations to end up as ASIS specs, or whether the

Yeah I don't know.

> ASIS folks are actively considering updates for Ada 2012.

They are actively working on it as I asked in this group months ago as I
was considering including what I could in my implementation, but at this
rate Ada 2020 will be out before ASIS 2012.

I could trawl through the ASIS issues but I don't think the new stuff is
public.

Luke