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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b8748382fcfacc1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95 Date: 2000/04/16 Message-ID: <38F9F4E5.10C13CAD@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 611920338 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38F6B617.34E216A7@emw.ericsson.se> <38F887AE.8CDA24E0@acm.org> <8dc8oi$kda$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 955908911 63.10.53.156 (Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:15:11 PDT) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jrcarter@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:15:11 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: [discussion of the debate and vote on "class" v "tagged" deleted] > There are many other intersting stories in the Ada 95 design > process, but the Salem vote on class was probably the high > point in drama :-) Personally I find this kind of history interesting. All I saw at the time was Ichbiah's article on "Ada with null", which did not help me understand very well his objections that lead to his leaving the revision process entirely. Too bad there isn't a web site with all this history that weirdoes like me could read. -- Jeff Carter "Perfidious English mouse-dropping hoarders." Monty Python & the Holy Grail