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: 2001-01-21 08:20:16 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news-x2.support.nl!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!intermedia!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!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: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:09:02 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94f1ir$kkc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94ce27$rrb$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> <94coa2$v2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94d3q6$a8d$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Jan 21 16:09:02 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x63.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4265 Date: 2001-01-21T16:09:02+00:00 List-Id: In article <94d3q6$a8d$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>, carroll@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Carroll) wrote: > In article <94coa2$v2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > Robert Dewar wrote: > (snip) > >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 :-) > > Modula-3 is probably an example of a reasonable starting > point. Are you answering my question and saying that Modula-3 already has this capability? If so, OK, but I was unaware of this. Or are you saying this is a reasonable starting point for the design of such an extension? If so, I disagree, certainly in this forum, the reasonable starting point is the worked out Ada 95 feature that was rejected. Tuck, is that available in some retrievable and postable form? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/