Re: Should Inline be private in the private part of a package spec?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:18:16 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 22.08.12 19:44, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:48:03 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>>> On 22.08.12 16:30, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>
>>>>> As always, the question is inefficient for what and for whom.
>>>>
>>>> For the network and the peers. The measures for both can be easily
>>>> provided.
>>>
>>> Well, that would depend on the specifics of "network" and its mode
>>> of use, wouldn't it?
>>
>> There exist pretty general measures, e.g. number of bits, FLOPs, QoS and so
>> on.
> 
> In the set called "and so on", information retrieval programs will
> be efficient at all once they can interpret a data item to be an object
> for which FLOPs make any sense.

and XML stands in their way.

> That's easier to see when there is
> markup than when the program needs to guess if some four octets
> could be a float.

Wasting time and memory. It is also fundamentally inconsistent, but that is
beside the point.

>>>>>> 2. fails to capture the structure (e.g. recursive, interlinked structures)
>>>>>
>>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> Take Containers.Doubly_Linked_Lists as an example. The closure object of a
>>>> list is the structure in question.
>>>
>>> "closure object" = ?
>>
>> Linked list is not an object. An object could be a closure of the list upon
>> the relation predecessor-successor, e.g. a set of linked nodes.
> 
> So the closure could be mapped to ... what if not an object?

Object where? Everything can be an object somewhere. It is meaningless
until you specify where.

> XML will not require complex, resource consuming, vulnerable parsers
> once applications need not input non-XML data, such as Excel files
> or HTML pages.

So it is the Excel's fault that XML requires parsing? (Can't wait your
mobile phone camera's would send each pixel in XML. The brave new world.)

>> Ada is not proposed for exchanging structured data
>> between computers.
> 
> It is, however, required to say how to exchange structured program
> source text between compilers.

No
 
>> Ada is a programming language. XML in this context plays
>> the role of a protocol to exchange above mentioned data.
> 
> No. It is a markup language for tagging data in text documents.
> We have been here before.

That is it! XML is not for exchange of structured data.

q.e.d.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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