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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:04:03 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Subject: Re: Gnat GPL 2010 available soon (conditional expressions)
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On 28.06.10 18:36, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:47:50 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The only code analysis tool is the compiler, otherwise the language is to
> be fixed.

Or let industry decide which Ada language profiles they would like
standardized.

A language profile such as the subset of Ada defined by SPARK,
with recursion and named pointers added.  Maybe including generics
with formal types only.