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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f3437064e1091fec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-14 10:31:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What evil would happen? Date: 14 Jul 2003 10:31:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ad0dd8a.0307140931.44329558@posting.google.com> References: <5ad0dd8a.0307111151.4a08f95a@posting.google.com> <5ad0dd8a.0307120426.226775f1@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.111.211.178 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1058203874 1759 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2003 17:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jul 2003 17:31:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40261 Date: 2003-07-14T17:31:14+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:... > In article , Preben Randhol writes: > > Larry Kilgallen wrote: > >> Nobody has claimed there was no way to program around this obstacle. > >> The claim under discussion was that there is "no use" for the capability. > > > > Well a great many things can have some usage, but it doesn't mean it has > > to be implemented. > > Certainly if everything suggested were implemented Ada _would_ be as > overly large as claimed by detractors. Oh, then I know one thing that could go away: type X is (One, Two, Three); type Y is new Integer; [new] can go away. Regards, Wojtek