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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Add Deprecated aspect to Ada 2020
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:32:03 +0100
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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.