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: 103376,7936408ed8296efa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-16 10:42:06 PST From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9b9g7c$cp6$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ada9cf5$1@pull.gecm.com> <9behk1$ik9$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3adad7ab$1@pull.gecm.com> <3ADB033A.F10344A9@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> <3adb0ba1$1@pull.gecm.com> <3ADB1BAA.6F4E0437@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> Subject: Re: User define attributes Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:37:08 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Message-ID: <3adb2bb8$1@pull.gecm.com> X-Trace: 16 Apr 2001 18:28:24 GMT, sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed3!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6922 Date: 2001-04-16T18:37:08+01:00 List-Id: great minds... :-) I can see how the actual output may vary from compiler to compiler, but that sort of problem crops up all over the place. If the RM had put a few examples in it should have been _that_ hard? should it? Samuel T. Harris wrote in message news:3ADB1BAA.6F4E0437@gsde.hou.us.ray.com... > I believe I asked that very same question here some > years ago. The response I got was the difficulty in > defining such a thing within the language and the > difficulties in implementing it in general. To which > I countered that the very same issues are relevant > to the definition and implementation of streams. > That is as far as the thread went (as far as my > imperfect memory recalls).