Re: Default rep specs for record types - documented??

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Marc A. Criley wrote:
> Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
>> One problem is that the compiler does _not_ warn you if you leave a
>> component out of the rep clause; a 'pragma Complete_Representation'
>> would be nice. Specifying the total size can mitigate this, but I
>> recently had a bug due to this problem.
> 
> 
> A couple years ago the idea of adding such a pragma, albeit with some 
> other name, was submitted to the ARG, and there was some discussion on 
> it.  It was ultimately rejected due to being, as I vaguely recall, of 
> being of insufficient value to justify the effort.

I remember someone suggesting

   for R use all
      record
         ...
      end record;

Wouldn't that work nicely, and be fairly easy to parse, both
for the reader, and for the parser?


-- Georg