Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel

[dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov)]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:42:54 GMT, "Mark Lundquist"
<up.yerz@nospam.com> wrote:

>
>"Brian Rogoff" <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> wrote in message
>news:Pine.BSF.4.10.10111220030230.12326-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net...
>> One of the interesting aspects of Cyclone which we
>> may see in Ada 200X (well Tucker Taft said we may anyways) is region based
>> memory management. Then I'll post a "Ada 0X : reinventing the wheel"
>message :-)
>
>Another area where I'd like to see Ada 0X "reinvent the wheel" is in the
>area of generics.
>
>In the Ada world we do tend to view C++ templates as just an inferior
>knockoff of Ada generics.  But they do have some good things going for them.
>I don't think that Ada generics should be like C++ templates in general, but
>I do think that Ada or an Ada-like language should have something like
>template specialization / partial specialization in C++.

I think it would be better to review tagged types and provide
user-written compile-time subroutines to reduce use of generics.

Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov