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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Redefined "=" = generic disaster?
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 04:32:37 GMT
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In article <3A01815A.75D30E9F@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> My current thinking is that we should have preserved the Ada
> 83 reemergence rules for everything except record types.

I think this would have been a VERY hard sell. To introduce
this degree of incompatibility with Ada 83 just for syntactic
convenience (after all, no one insists that you redefine
"=" for any purpose), would have been very hard to justify.
Today, far more people find the incompatibilities between
Ada 83 and Ada 95 a bar to the use of Ada 95, than people
who go around saying "Ada is a great language, and I would
use it, except for the horrible reemergence problem.

Of course one interesting approach would have been to do
equality right in the cases where it was redefined in a manner
not possible in Ada 83 ...


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