Re: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

Julian Morrison wrote:
> 
> Two things I'd like to see included: Java-style "interfaces" with
> multiple inheritance, and cross-platform sockets as a standard annex.

Java-style interfaces are proposed in the Amendment AI 251; see:

  http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin-acats/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-00251.DOC?rev=1.3

I would agree that some kind of sockets interface should be considered,
something on the level of java.net.Socket and java.net.ServerSocket.
Perhaps also an HTTP servlet interface.  These might want to be
"secondary" standards, or perhaps part of an "Internet" annex.

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