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-Thread: 103376,f7c38a023cf370dc X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Should representation clauses be complete for each bit? References: <73c10395-ec4f-4a02-b0fc-e35bc14424fa@e18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <4e26f324$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:59:46 -0400 Message-ID: <82y5zs5aj1.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PrH7Jk68NtIowXZGo+S1AAP1k+Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 456c84e27dc88e029e66109807 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:21228 Date: 2011-07-21T03:59:46-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: > On 20.07.11 16:51, Robert A Duff wrote: > >> By the way, I find Ada's representation clauses to be at the wrong >> level of abstraction. Why can't I just write a single line of code >> that means "put all the components in declaration order with no gaps >> in between"? > > Is this a frequent use case? Yes, extremely. The case with explicit gaps is also extremely common; I like the 'null at ...' idea. -- -- Stephe