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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:14:59 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> On 04/25/2012 02:09 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>> 0) Which features do you think can be dropped from Ada?
> 
> Interfaces
> Tagged types (but retaining finalization for record types)
> Child packages with visibility of their ancestors
> 
> These would return Ada to its original vision as a language for programming by 
> composition.

by *procedural* [de]composition you mean.

tagged types = composition of types per inheritance
child packages = composition of packages

For the sake of purity you could also consider dropping record and array
types as they too involve some types composition. You would pass record
components and array elements as individual parameters to the procedures...

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