From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Ada-G, was Re: Streams and Concurrency
Date: 1999/01/04
Date: 1999-01-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.99Jan4151349@spectre.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.05.9901011003090.10526-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901011003090.10526-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> I agree completely, but the message I get from this interesting discussion
> is that vendors should agree on Ada fixes (based on customer input amongst
> other things) a bit faster than once a decade.
They do, but the process is still slow and deliberate. During the
(officially just over eleven years) between Ada 83 and Ada 95, there
were a half-dozen cases where the Ada Rapporteur Group issued Nonbinding
interpretations, one of them on raising Contstraint_Error instead of
Program_Error. The goal of these NBIs was to allow implementors to
move in the direction that the new language revision would move
without forcing any particular schedule. In cases where the language
was unclear but all compilers behaved consistantly, we enforced the de
facto standard with binding interpretations.
The official process with Ada 95 may be somewhat different since we
intend to issue corrigenda consolidating the AIs, but the results
should be the same--a slow evolution in the definition of the
language.
--
Robert I. Eachus
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-30 0:00 Streams and Concurrency James S. Rogers
1998-12-29 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-31 0:00 ` Ada-G, was " Tom Moran
1999-01-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-01 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1999-01-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-11 0:00 ` Bulk synchronous model for IO (was Re: Streams and Concurrency) Kevin Rigotti
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