From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard
Date: 1996/09/09
Date: 1996-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Sep8203109@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 322D6D79.7317@ehs.ericsson.se
In article <dewar.842196117@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> iJon Anthony asks
>
> "I don't think I could over emphasize my strong agreement with this!
> What is the story on actually getting this adopted?
> "
>
> (talking about a solution to the circularity problem)
>
> I don't see any chance of officially (i.e. at the ISO level) adopting a
> modification to the ISO standard any time soon (say any time in the next
> few years).
>
> So what we are looking at here is more like an informal agreement to
> provide a non-standard extension. This can be done either completely
> informally, or perhaps the ACE can be stretched a little to encompass
> the idea of semi-recognized non-standard extensions.
Excellent! That would be _reall_ good. And that level of cooperation
would be really kewl.
> But first, we need to agre on a technical approach (I note that Tuck
Check.
> has changed his mind on this since we last discussed it). Actually
> I prefer Tuck's previous suggestion of "with type", because it makes
> it more honestly clear that this is indeed an extension, than
> trying to somehow fit it into the pragma semantics, but I think
> we need to discuss that. Perhaps the next ARG meeting can find a little
> time to discuss it.
I thought that this "pragma hack" was just for experimenting with the
semantics, but that the "with type" was the way it would end up. Maybe
I misunderstood...
/Jon
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Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-31 0:00 Re:Two ideas for the next Ada Standard dulman
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Two " Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Two " Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-06 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-04 0:00 Bob Mathis
1996-09-04 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-28 0:00 Two ideas for the next Ada standard Van Snyder
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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