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Subject: Re: Gnat 2013 is out!
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On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 11:34:55 AM UTC-7, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 10:42:53 AM UTC-7, Wesley Pan wrote:
> > I apologize if this sounds really naive. My Ada skills is quite rusty at the moment (trying to slowly re-learn it). Why not simply make 'dummy' a new keyword? I imagine many people would call their throw away variable something like "Dummy".
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> We already do.  That's why we can't make it a new keyword.  It would make a ton of existing code illegal.  The idea makes sense; too bad they didn't think of it way back in 1983.
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>                              -- Adam

The new attribute idea would avoid any clashing of new keywords since the apostrophe helps to clearly distinguish it.

We can also consider: disposable, expendable, momentary, and ephemeral. Guys writing cryptographic software might complain about the last word since they probably use it a lot. =)

-Wesley