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: 103376,9aa4352fa83d37dc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-02 17:21:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Main subprogram at library level References: <1047ia2f8afucd9@corp.supernews.com> <104a370t2sred07@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: <104a370t2sred07@corp.supernews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7qa1c.16379$yZ1.8619@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 01:21:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1078276867 63.184.8.123 (Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:21:07 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:21:07 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6022 Date: 2004-03-03T01:21:07+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > AI-344 proposes to remove the restriction altogether. Certainly a better > idea than eliminating it in one weird place... Eliminating it altogether, if possible, would be nice. I was coming from the position that the restriction is necessary. If it's not necessary, why do we have it? However, I'm not sure that that the main subprogram's declarative region is really such a weird place. Lots of people, including some with Ada experience and knowledge of the restriction, assume that the main subprogram is at library level (until their compiler tells them otherwise and they post a message here asking why). > (But I don't know what will happen with that AI - it has not been discussed > much to date.) I hope that changes. -- Jeff Carter "I spun around, and there I was, face to face with a six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass." Blazing Saddles 40