Re: casecrash: language lawyers: C'mon!

[Tucker Taft <stt@avercom.net>]

Peter Hermann wrote:
> 
> short clarification:
> my code clearly shows that I unintentionally overloaded identifier h
> and I am wondering why Ada is not smart enough for context resolution.
> My question still remains whether Ada2005 could be pushed forward
> for such clearly obvious circumstances.

Highly unlikely.  Ada makes a strong distinction
between overloadable declarations (subprograms, entries, and enumerals)
and non-overloadable declarations (everything else).
Allowing more general overloading would dramatically affect
a very delicate part of existing compilers (overload resolution)
and would require a major new benefit to justify it.

In other words, don't hold your breath ;-).

> 
> --
> Peter Hermann Tel+49-711-685-3611 Fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
> Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen
> http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/
> Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)

-- 
-Tucker Taft   stt@avercom.net   http://www.avercom.net
Chief Technology Officer, AverCom Corporation (A Titan Company) 
Bedford, MA  USA (AverCom was formerly the Commercial Division of AverStar:
http://www.averstar.com/~stt)