Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009?

["Björn Persson" <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>]

Eric Hughes wrote:

> This is the Ada community's problem

The Ada community's problem is a shortage of people who want to contribute.
There's no shortage of people who just want to whine. One way of
contributing is to report the bugs you find. Since you made the effort to
isolate the bug and produce a minimal test case, I don't understand why
you'd waste that effort instead of taking the last step and actually report
the bug.

It's generally assumed that the person who reports a bug is also the person
who can answer questions about the bug report. Reporting other people's
bugs is likely to cause unnecessary trouble. I once tried to be helpful and
entered a bug report in GCC's Bugzilla for a bug that someone else had
posted about here in comp.lang.ada. That report was closed unfixed because
of misunderstandings.

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