Re: Question: dynamic rename?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Le 04/09/2011 05:11, Darkwing a �crit :
> On Sep 3, 6:22 am, Pascal Obry<pas...@obry.net>  wrote:
>> Or using a case expression in Ada 2012:
>>
>>      Signal : Signal_Type :=
>>                 (case Configuration is
>>                     when One =>  Signal_One,
>>                     when Two =>  Signal_Two);
>
> You can really do that in Ada 2012? (I've never used 2012, just 95).

Yes, and this already works in GNAT recent versions. Not tested with 
GNAT GPL 2011 though.

> That's pretty cool. Any word on when 2012 will be finalized?

ISO standardization should be completed in 2012. Implementation of some 
features has already started in GNAT but for a full Ada 2012 support it 
will take some time. More information about Ada 2012:

    http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/ada-2012/

    http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/ada12.html

You probably want to read this introduction to Ada 2012:

 
http://www2.adacore.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Ada2012_Rational_Introducion.pdf

Pascal.

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