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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,35782846f963b1e5 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.227.67 with SMTP id ry3mr20998807pbc.8.1341830980366; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni11215pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: AdaMagica Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on the need to duplicate code for procedure signature in both body and interface files Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 03:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <323bd6e4-5b78-4515-8167-985ff03fb1c0@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.7.52.133 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1341830980 540 127.0.0.1 (9 Jul 2012 10:49:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:49:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=91.7.52.133; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-09T03:49:39-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, July 9, 2012 3:48:09 AM UTC+2, Britt wrote: > This topic was recently discussed in the "Ada Programming Language" > LinkedIn group in a thread titled "Imaginary proposal for the next Ada > standard: Ada compilers will automatically generate Package > Specification from Package Body". The discussion started as a poll and > most respondents (including me) strongly dislike the idea. > > Edward Colbert just posted a nice summary there. IMHO, this idea indicates a fundamental ignorance of the basics principles of Ada.