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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c63aa81a67eceb8f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal Date: 1999/09/24 Message-ID: <37EBD2F3.E1E32672@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 529169545 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37e7c08e@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <7satei$e2q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37EA4E91.1D4D1FC@averstar.com> <37eaa24b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <7sgbke$ci5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 938201786 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:36:26 CDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:36:26 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > In this particular case, there is a significant implementation > burden (wait till you are really working on your Ada compiler > to appreciate that :-). In particular, getting the debugger to > understand this completely new type would be significant work. In the cases of gdb and Apex Duo, where the same debugger understands both C and Ada, then the debugger should be able to understand char *fruits[] = { "apple", "orange", "pear" }; So how much work would it be to handle an Ada syntax that has the same underlying implementation? Of course, if the answer is "not much" there's still the question of whether the value is worth the addition to the language. I'm somewhat in favor of the capability (I have yet to look at the proposed syntax). The loudest complaints I hear from C-sick folks (who've seen Ada 83 but never heard of Ada.Strings.* or Interfaces.C) concerns Ada's alleged lack of string capabilities.