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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.55.99.70 with SMTP id x67mr7290404qkb.1.1505204676561; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:24:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.250.140 with SMTP id v134mr703894ith.0.1505204676428; Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!q8no2741865qtb.0!news-out.google.com!c139ni268itb.0!nntp.google.com!o200no220589itg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:24:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=92.221.111.106; posting-account=beIwHAoAAADU40dPBV1VR5DLW0gTDYxo NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.221.111.106 References: <915874b5-52c0-4aa8-9023-82fddedb816f@googlegroups.com> <67345f73-530c-400b-9eb4-63eeb440154c@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8f883f24-b5a8-4e3d-a77f-44eb5bd781df@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: Tarjei Jensen Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:24:36 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48039 Date: 2017-09-12T01:24:36-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, 12 September 2017 09:42:54 UTC+2, Egil H H wrote: > On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 9:02:15 AM UTC+2, Tarjei Jensen wrote: > > It is different because you don't need to overload := to make it work. > > Substituting a discriminant with a record member does not magically change the behaviour of ":=" The whole point is that the compiler knows how counted strings work.