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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.27.67 with SMTP id r3mr201827pag.27.1377724227484; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:10:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.49.11 with SMTP id q11mr1080561ign.12.1377724227233; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!n2no6735234pbg.1!news-out.google.com!z6ni21921pbu.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no5898529qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:10:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5ef20b8c-b917-4a62-a317-e0cda7a6789b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Anonymous access types are evil, why? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:10:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 1921 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183207 Date: 2013-08-28T14:10:26-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 2:16:19 PM UTC-6, sbelm...@gmail.com wrote: >=20 > If you are going to use an AAT, always make sure you have a valid reason = for doing it and understand the ramifications. They are a specific tool fo= r providing specific behavior in specific circumstances, not just a general= syntax shortcut to avoid having to properly declare your types. In the FORTH implementation I was building I had to use AAT because the co= mpiler crashed out when I tried using the type directly [limited with], but= for some reason allows AAT.