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Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate
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mcq95@earthlink.net (Marc A. Criley) wrote in message news:<254c16a.0305210726.485125de@posting.google.com>...
 
> We have modified the
> compiler to allow the same object.method syntax [...]  We have also
> performed this modification to the Windows 3.15 version of GNAT.


great!!

This is so cool. 

Ada needs this change badly. It is IMHO, the main thing I find against
Ada not being called an OO language. I know this is a synactic sugar
only issue, but it would make programming in Ada much more easier for
me and many others, I am sure, who are 'used' to the object.method() syntax.

When will this change be in GNAT officially? i.e. the public release
of GNAT?