Re: Extensible Enummerated types FW: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)

[carroll@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Carroll)]

In article <94f1ir$kkc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Robert Dewar  <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
(snip)
>Are you answering my question and saying that Modula-3 already
>has this capability? If so, OK, but I was unaware of this.

Yes, it does, and moreover that it's a specific example of one of the
contexts in which I do find enumerated types useful; I was trying to
answer your question in which you ask for specifics of that.

>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.
(snip)

Certainly, I meant _a_ potential reasonable starting point, rather
than _the_ reasonable starting point. (-: I don't know much about Ada
95 yet: I just recently subscribed to this group, as I'm thinking of
porting some of our Modula-3 stuff to Ada 95.

-- Mark