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Subject: Re: Overloading operator "=" for anonymous access types?
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Date: 2019-01-14T16:34:42-08:00
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On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 4:08:36 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>=20
> As always, best avoid anonymous access types unless you have to use one o=
f=20
> their special features (dynamic accessibility, dispatching, special=20
> discriminant accessibility, or closures [for access-to-subprograms]). And=
=20
> better still, lets lobby to get those special features optionally availab=
le=20
> for named access types so no one every has to use an anonymous anything. =
:-)

Well, I'm all for getting rid of anonymous access types altogether -- thoug=
h that might not be acceptable to the rest of the ARG as it would make prev=
iously-valid Ada non-valid, I think reducing the complexity of the language=
 (and reduce instances of "a rule that barely makes sense anyway").

I thought there was an AI for first class subprograms / subprogram types, b=
ut I couldn't find it with a quick search... so either I'm misremembering o=
r I'm just hitting all the wrong keywords in the search.