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: 103376,5894fe67040038b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-08 19:55:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Attributes 'Version and 'Body_Version Date: 8 Nov 2001 19:55:28 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0111081955.41f3ade1@posting.google.com> References: <9s9iti$g$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <5ee5b646.0111061939.595b61be@posting.google.com> <9sbb1f$2bm$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> <9sboee$42f$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9sc0cf$76a$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <5ee5b646.0111071511.6fe3f067@posting.google.com> <9seku6$hes$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1005278129 11024 127.0.0.1 (9 Nov 2001 03:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Nov 2001 03:55:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16117 Date: 2001-11-09T03:55:29+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:<9seku6$hes$1@nh.pace.co.uk>... > This may not be news: I often want what is, in fact, impossible. :-) It is perfectly reasonable to propose a new attribute say 'Source_Version that returns a string with the kind of attributes you suggest (e.g. it could return a version number from the CM, or the time stamp, or some such). But this has nothing whatsoever to do with the 'Version attribute, and you merely confuse the discussion by thinking otherwise. Try reading the definition in the RM *forgetting* that the name of the attribute is "version" :-)