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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9f437cff8842e
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Enumeration representation
Date: 1999/09/14
Message-ID: <7rld95$dag$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 524826725
References: <37D8E3BC.175DB72C@newtech.it> <yecn1uu9xy2.fsf@king.cts.com>
 <7rcceh$anh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <yeczoyt2hxx.fsf@king.cts.com>
 <7rhkte$na7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <yechfkz8k1t.fsf@king.cts.com>
 <7rjn38$7e1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <yec7llus8yw.fsf@king.cts.com>
X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x37.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14
Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Sep 14 11:58:34 1999 GMT
X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I)
Date: 1999-09-14T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <yec7llus8yw.fsf@king.cts.com>,
  Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:
> If this feature had been better designed (IMHO), it would be
possible
> to get at the internal representation in a way that won't
break if the
> type or the representation is changed -- just recompile and it
works.

Well it is not a matter of better design here, this issue was
specifically discussed in the design process, it was the general
conclusion that this is simply not a valuable enough feature
to be worth adding complexity to the language for.

That being said, you can see that GNAT disagrees to the extent
of adding the Enum_Rep attribute, which seems easy enough to
implement, and harmless ...



Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.