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 10.31.152.79 with SMTP id a76mr5470953vke.53.1505155782624; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:49:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.29.212 with SMTP id 203mr361617itj.1.1505155782473; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:49:42 -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!q8no2491657qtb.0!news-out.google.com!c139ni3617itb.0!nntp.google.com!o200no2344490itg.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:49:42 -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: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <915874b5-52c0-4aa8-9023-82fddedb816f@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada Programming Language From: Tarjei Jensen Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:49:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48009 Date: 2017-09-11T11:49:42-07:00 List-Id: It is time to get counted strings into the standard. The key to counted strings is that they need to be first class objects. The= compiler must know how to handle them. Just like it would do when it handl= es integers or reals of different sizes. You don't have to overload :=3D in= order to assign a byte sized integer to a word sized integer. And you don'= t need to overload operators to add or subtract them. I strongly believe that implementing it as a general Ada feature will be in= effective. I know that it will be tempting to do so, but RESIST!!!!!! I also believe that educators will welcome such a move. Especially those wh= o remember Turbo Pascal.