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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Add Deprecated aspect to Ada 2020
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:32:03 +0100
Date: 2017-08-22T20:32:03+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <857906834.525123034.844962.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ongn0q$mek$1@gioia.aioe.org

Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On 22/08/2017 07:47, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> Le 21/08/2017 à 21:34, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>>> You always can add new defaulted parameters
>> This can break compatibility if the old subprogram is used in an
>> instantiation as an actual for a generic formal subprogram parameter
> 
> Possibly, although I don't care much about generics, if anybody wants to 
> improve something then maybe this rather than adding a useless aspect?
> 

It wouldn't be useless. What's useless is keeping old, possibly broken,
functionality in an api, thus increasing the size of the whole library.
Which is what you're proposing. That's useless.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-19 18:52 Add Deprecated aspect to Ada 2020 Lucretia
2017-08-19 18:52 ` Simon Clubley
2017-08-19 18:54 ` Björn Lundin
2017-08-19 20:55   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2017-08-19 19:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-21 19:09   ` Per Sandberg
2017-08-21 19:34     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-22  5:47       ` J-P. Rosen
2017-08-22  7:38         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-22 19:32           ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2017-08-22 20:04             ` Pascal Obry
2017-08-23  7:11             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-08-31  1:05       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-08-31 15:19         ` Lucretia
2017-09-01  0:13           ` Randy Brukardt
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