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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108abf,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108abf,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: <387F8E50.11D27E14@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572719261 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8859.621FA20B@netscape.net> <387CC1C0.4C57E34C@quadruscorp.com> <387CEE4A.3965@Ganymede.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 14 Jan 2000 21:00:30 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,rec.aviation.military Date: 2000-01-14T21:00:30+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." -- Allan Meltzer, Economist =============================================================