From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada202X: Easy to use "UML private"-like components Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:52:45 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <206y6i0kct3w$.mhlovb1s5pey.dlg@40tude.net> References: <69246de0-4b33-4d47-b5be-a45e8c911fb0@googlegroups.com> <9qrbs8l828t3pvgves504a8fm7o1c7tcpj@4ax.com> <91qcs81k6am9l3u3n19lj0b072lc48td69@4ax.com> <1im71djlxwm94$.fbjv1si7kmvj$.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: xkOZ88C3T5fLavXpgyt3vA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:15912 Date: 2013-06-23T20:52:45+02:00 List-Id: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:15:15 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > >> ... or there should be no generics. >> >> The kludge here rather is generics and inlining, both basically are macro >> expansions. > > Semantics defined by macro-expansion is confusing, and should be > avoided. I'd prefer to have generic types rather than generic > packages, and don't use macro-expansion semantics. Still macro expansion it is (if meant as textual substitution). It is no matter how you reinterpret the expanded text: as a package, as a type, as a statement, identifier, declaration etc. Generic types would be no better than generic packages. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de