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: 103376,25aa3c7e1b59f7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-14 05:14:40 PST Message-ID: <3C42D9B9.8C1D82DB@baesystems.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:14:33 +0000 From: Stuart Palin Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Avionics, Rochester X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe? References: <3C34BF2C.6030500@mail.com> <3C34D252.4070307@mail.com> <5ee5b646.0201040829.18db8001@posting.google.com> <3C35E733.6030603@mail.com> <3C35FE2A.9020802@mail.com> <3C3C1438.FBF10FC3@baesystems.com> <3C3EB43E.B82E92CA@baesystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: rc2966.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com X-Trace: 14 Jan 2002 13:14:36 GMT, rc2966.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed3!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!rc2966.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18896 Date: 2002-01-14T13:14:33+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > Stuart Palin writes: > > Some potential candidates are ruled out by the Allowable Replacement > > Characters (LRM[83] 2.10 - what happened to that section in LRM[95]?). > > It moved to J.2. Ta! > > Anyhow it is all water under the bridge, the die is cast - but it still > > peeves me! > > I don't take that attitude at all. Ada isn't the be-all and end-all of > programming languages, so it's reasonable to discuss alternatives. Agree that Ada is not the be-all & end-all; and discussing alternatives is reasonable. But for those using Ada today the 'die is cast'; and just to be clear - my peeve is not that the die is cast (that's life!) - it is that the language team did loads of other things to stop 'silly' mistakes - including terminating comments at the end of line - but chose a token that might easily occur in a mis-typing and could be difficult to spot in a code inspection (depending on font etc). -- Stuart Palin