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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f34f1a1939dc0c40,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Matthew Woodcraft Subject: conditional compilation Date: 2000/07/31 Message-ID: <87d7jvp3qq.fsf@chiark.greenend.org.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 652584578 Sender: mjw@golux X-Trace: news11-gui.server.ntli.net 965001604 62.253.132.90 (Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:00:04 BST) Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:00:04 BST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@net.ntl.com Date: 2000-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I noticed the following statement in the Steelman requirements: "6C. Conditional Control. There shall be conditional control structures that permit selection among alternative control paths. ... Only the selected branch shall be compiled when the discriminating condition is a translation time expression." Am I right in thinking that the second sentence above isn't true of Ada-as-we-know-it (for example, if a non-selected branch has a compile-time error)? -M-