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 autolearn=ham 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 11:04:26 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail From: carroll@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Carroll) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Extensible Enummerated types FW: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Date: 21 Jan 2001 19:04:25 GMT Organization: Ohio State Univ., Dept of Computer and Information Science Message-ID: <94fbrp$iou$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> References: <94coa2$v2v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94d3q6$a8d$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> <94f1ir$kkc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beta.cis.ohio-state.edu X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4273 Date: 2001-01-21T19:04:25+00:00 List-Id: In article <94f1ir$kkc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar 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