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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.7.35 with SMTP id 35mr15965445ioh.28.1447360657529; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:37:37 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.24.226 with SMTP id x2mr170658obf.8.1447360657499; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:37:37 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!i2no982490igv.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni349igq.0!nntp.google.com!i2no982480igv.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:37:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=174.28.149.7; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.28.149.7 References: <87h9ku2dcp.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <87d1vg3mvm.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <46a5f0e0-50a5-4f11-b8cf-57f7f320fcd7@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: GNAT and user-defined aspects and pragmas? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:37:37 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28337 Date: 2015-11-12T12:37:37-08:00 List-Id: On Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 12:24:28 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote: >=20 > Certain ARG members are highly confused. :-) Nothing that is an aspect ev= er=20 > should have been a pragma, and aspects should be considered a replacement= =20 > for pragmas rather than some sort of parallel syntax. About the only instance where should-have-been-aspects-pragmas make any sen= se is with Import and Export. Things like, say, OpenGL with its half-millio= n (slight exaggeration) definitions of Color, would be done cleaner with th= e single Pragma Import than individual aspects.