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,f7c38a023cf370dc X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:24:20 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Should representation clauses be complete for each bit? References: <73c10395-ec4f-4a02-b0fc-e35bc14424fa@e18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4e26f324$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jul 2011 17:24:20 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 958136ad.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=OGi0:knZ\C6lIh70@:Lh>_cHTX3j=8MC8MK1g:G< X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20238 Date: 2011-07-20T17:24:20+02:00 List-Id: On 20.07.11 16:51, Robert A Duff wrote: > By the way, I find Ada's representation clauses to be at the wrong > level of abstraction. Why can't I just write a single line of code > that means "put all the components in declaration order with no gaps > in between"? Is this a frequent use case?