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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f4f6a5b783e1150c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: MI for Ada Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: <7afno0$f8t$1@plug.news.pipex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445524057 References: <36C365F8.50E84F94@averstar.com> <7a2j8q$meo@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <7a7aav$mse$2@plug.news.pipex.net> <7a86q2$kec$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <7a86q2$kec$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... [...] |Hmm! Nick, you have a long way to go in analyzing difficult |RM issues. No particular difficulty??? This is in fact a |VERY difficult proposal to get right, and almost certainly |it will run aground on any number of rocks on the way. | |Multiple inheritance is a well known landmine in |programming language semantic definition land! Noted. |Have you read the AI's. I assume so if you are even vaguely |serious about implementing an Ada 95 compiler. If not, you |should, it would give you an interesting insight into the |delicate semantic issues of the language. Actually reading |the AARM is also a good way to get a feeling for this. I'm in the process of reading the AI95s and the AARM. And yes, both are most illuminating. Entertaining too, sometimes. The comment on the end of the AI on the 'List' pragma - something like "this must be the most pointless AI imaginable" - made me laugh out loud. I was amazed at how another (admittedly unimportant) AI, about time zones, seems to be just dropped unresolved. But that'll keep for another thread. And yes, I am serious about it. I don't have any great illusion about the enormity of the task - I suppose I feel a bit like Edmund Hillary or Tensing Norgay standing at the foot of Mt Everest/Chomolungma - but I intend to conquer! ------------------------------------- Nick Roberts Nothing Venture, Nothing Win -------------------------------------