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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-08 12:15:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8913ED.944A2C2B@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada References: <3C88E832.8BE487B5@boeing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 14:41:33 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1015616514 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:41:54 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:41:54 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20953 Date: 2002-03-08T14:41:33-05:00 List-Id: > procedure X is > ... > begin X > ... That was my original proposal, but consider: How can a compiler tell whether the above is supposed to be a correct use of a label or a recursive call with the semicolon forgotten? > and make them mandatory! Of course, the shorthand form for a block then Making them mandatory answers that objection, but it also butchers any goals of backward compatibility. Please do NOT make it mandatory. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau