From: csampson@cod.nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson)
Subject: Re: Elaboration_check For Instantiations
Date: 1997/10/30
Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Oct30.224738.20817@nosc.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34573CCF.4DE4@pseserv3.fw.hac.com
In article <34573CCF.4DE4@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>,
W. Wesley Groleau x4923 <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> wrote:
>> ..... However, I have
>> never been happy as a programmer when a compiler says, "I'm smarter
>> than you are and I'm not going to allow you to do what you want."
>
>This is the argument many C programmers use against Ada. ...
Yes, it's the same argument, but the effect is quite different.
Once I've accepted the limitations imposed by a language, I don't want
the compiler imposing additional ones.
It seems to me that this thread has progressed to the point where
it is no longer particularly meaningful in comp.lang.ada. Ada compilers
are not going to do any second guessing because the language definition
won't allow them. Certainly the Ada 95 compilers I've been exposed to,
GNAT among them, were correct in their handling of the particular issue
I mistakenly complained about in starting the thread.
Charlie
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-23 0:00 Elaboration_check For Instantiations Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson [this message]
[not found] ` <345774b3.1434102@santaclara01.news.internex.net>
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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