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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: A question re meaning/use of the "for ... use ..."
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:40:20 -0000
Date: 2004-12-08T08:40:20+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41b6bc76$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gZ-dnbpS9P_yhCvcRVn-tQ@megapath.net

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> That was proposed early in the Ada 9x process (that is, "when expr" on
> returns, raise, etc.). It eventually got dropped as not important
> enough when the scope of Ada 9x was reduced.
>
> Generally, we haven't looked at "nice to haves" or things that got
> dropped from Ada 9x (conditional expressions is another thing that
> comes to mind). There wasn't exactly a groundswell of comments in
> those areas, either.

Clearly this is a lot less important than extra libraries, interfaces, etc.
but I have wondered this before myself and I think it would improve program
readability quite a bit.

One for Ada201Z perhaps! :-)






  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-08  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-05 15:27 A question re meaning/use of the "for ... use ..." Erik J Pessers
2004-12-05 15:47 ` Martin Krischik
2004-12-05 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2004-12-05 16:52   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-06 19:59     ` Randy Brukardt
2004-12-07  1:36       ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-07  2:40         ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2004-12-07 20:59         ` Randy Brukardt
2004-12-08  1:41           ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-08  8:40           ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-12-08 16:23             ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-12-08  3:18       ` Keith Thompson
2004-12-08 13:48         ` David C. Hoos
2004-12-08 19:50         ` Randy Brukardt
2004-12-08 23:00           ` Keith Thompson
2004-12-09 23:06             ` Randy Brukardt
2004-12-10  2:26               ` Keith Thompson
2004-12-10 19:42                 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-12-10 21:18                   ` Keith Thompson
2004-12-11  0:53                     ` Keith Thompson
2004-12-10  3:13             ` David C. Hoos
2004-12-10  9:23               ` Keith Thompson
2004-12-10 13:24                 ` David C. Hoos
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