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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b0235b23a9db0f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-20 11:30:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Extensible Enummerated types FW: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:18:32 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94coa2$v2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94c61v$h4a$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94ce27$rrb$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Jan 20 19:18:32 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x58.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4243 Date: 2001-01-20T19:18:32+00:00 List-Id: In article <94ce27$rrb$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>, carroll@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Carroll) wrote: > In article , > Jeff Creem wrote: > (snip) > >Whether the extra complexity this imposes on compiler writes (or language > >learners) is worth the occasional > >convenience is certainly debatable. > > FWIW, I certainly make use of it in other languages. ^^^^^^^^^ How about specifices, since not many languages support this capability (C and C++ do not even have enumeration types in the sense in which we are discussing things now after all :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/