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: 103376,334f9012742e58fc X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:47:50 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat GPL 2010 available soon (conditional expressions) References: <2010061621145016807-sjs@essexacuk> <0fa4c574-9539-492f-8514-d32c68beb22a@w31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <1frrgtpa5dycl$.12kl72iqsg3dx$.dlg@40tude.net> <4c270613$0$6974$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <1wuwvzgwlwgli$.1birkinieia0d$.dlg@40tude.net> <1ur19ais2ejih.mjbgdsv9pr66.dlg@40tude.net> <4c275562$0$6987$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4c276114$0$2378$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <4rdrvu1jskwp.1aomtio1yk12o.dlg@40tude.net> <4c2885df$0$2386$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4c28b616$0$6874$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jun 2010 16:47:50 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 16285ec2.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=AMh]GR[RYkFXOIPA9EHlD;3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ8kFiPO\@STnc\616M64>ZLh>_cHTX3j]SJ\m9]fbUj\ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12938 Date: 2010-06-28T16:47:50+02:00 List-Id: On 29.06.10 16:08, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> The use of conditional expressions in "normal" code is optional (I >> think) but I can see that once you add them to the language, forbidding >> them from normal code would seem oddly inconsistent. > > Yes. This is exactly same as anonymous access types and other "workaround" > things. Once you let them in, they won't leave. Conditional expressions will not be everywhere if your project uses a source code analysis tool with suitable settings.