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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47def5aa7b3182bd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@harp.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Question (was Re: How to write TYPECASE in Ada 95?) Date: 1999/02/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 448095958 Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: harp.burl.averstar.com References: Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney (matthew_heaney@acm.org) wrote: : ... : I just wish Ada allowed the attribute T'Class for non-tagged types too. We had those for a while during the 9X process, but they were considered a bit too "radical" ;-). They survived as the "universal types" for numeric types, but the more general notion of 'Class didn't make the "cut." -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA