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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx22.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <5436ED7B.9080109@gmail.com> From: Shark8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/35.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2005 Language Designer References: <6168abe0-23f3-4190-a405-ffd28d9e490a@googlegroups.com> <1a27a5ce-cc98-4e87-999f-feecca3b6825@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1a27a5ce-cc98-4e87-999f-feecca3b6825@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:18:07 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:18:03 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1309 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4158275256 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22290 Date: 2014-10-09T14:18:03-06:00 List-Id: On 10/8/2014 3:26 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote: > And you couldn't pass it as a parameter to any other subprogram, > nor return one from a function. That would be an interesting feature. Sounds about on-par with LISP's macro functionality; and possibly like the multi-staged compiler option one of the people on this forum was advocating for Ada 202X.