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-Thread: 103376,227757d168eaa8a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.cid.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A question re meaning/use of the "for ... use ..." Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:40:20 -0000 Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Message-ID: <41b6bc76$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> References: <41b3291e$0$44072$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl> X-Trace: individual.net okkZn0VKzEFbLLsA40lcTQGk52r0wk9TcpmvFtKrzzURCATz3Q X-Orig-Path: baen1673807.greenlnk.net!baen1673807!not-for-mail X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: baen1673807.greenlnk.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6833 Date: 2004-12-08T08:40:20+00:00 List-Id: 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! :-)