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,f3687114209e3c2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2!feeder.erje.net!fdn.fr!glou.fr.eu.org!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp8-2.free.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Abusing tagged types References: Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:50:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87y6z4cefp.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pae+IAbLqnfBATxG1iMXFVpkq/Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Nov 2008 11:50:01 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.121.19.179 X-Trace: 1227869401 news-3.free.fr 24598 91.121.19.179:42037 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2830 Date: 2008-11-28T11:50:01+01:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Maciej" == Maciej Sobczak writes: Maciej> The type can be made tagged *only* to get the syntax sugar. Maciej> Is it considered to be an abuse of the language feature? This will increase the memory size of every instance. Even if no dispatching is used the tag will be stored in each object because dispatching *could* be used. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/