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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 09:21:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.72!wnfilter2!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC3240B.96703A8B@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <9phnic$9g5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <5fkv7.134136$w7.19988807@news02.optonline.net> <9pmpk00a53@drn.newsguy.com> <9puvdc$225$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9pv2f20jf4@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:21:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.32.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1002644493 12.86.32.113 (Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:21:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:21:33 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14052 Date: 2001-10-09T16:21:33+00:00 List-Id: "Robert*@" wrote: > > In article <9puvdc$225$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin says... > > >They *want* a language that is loose. > > can GNAT implement a pragma > > pragma LOOSE_MODE_START > > ? > > this will solve all of Ada popularity problems. Maybe even C programmers > will use it then with such a pragma in place? Why not simply use pragma Suppress(All_Checks) ? That option does currently exist. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA