Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

jtarver wrote:
> I mean the first rule of the compliance was that there be no extensions and
> VAX immediately violated that rule.
> 
Not exactly true. Extensions have always been allowed if, by
"extensions" you mean packages which are provided by the compiler for
features not provided in the standard. (Math libraries, etc.) If by
"extensions" you mean language constructs not provided for by the syntax
of the language, then this is also not exactly accurate. The requirement
is that the compiler provide a mode in which it will parse the standard
Ada syntax and reject anything that is not standard. However, if the
compiler has an "extended" mode in which it will interpret non-standard
syntax, that is quite all right too. The goal here was that a project
should have a means of restricting itself to the standard language to
enhance portability, but if that were not a concern and a compiler had
additional capabilities, it should be quite all right to use those
facilities.

MDC
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