From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: What's Pure for Dist Sytems?
Date: 1997/06/19
Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jun19182903@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x2pvtianx1.fsf@inf.fu-berlin.de
In article <x2pvtianx1.fsf@inf.fu-berlin.de> Andre Spiegel <spiegel@inf.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> > I was especially upset at the restriction of no {un}bounded strings.
>
> > Is there anything that i'm missing here?
>
> There is a proposal to add pragma Remote_Types to some of the
> predefined packages (see Ada Issue ai-00126, at
> http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/standards/95com/ada-issues/).
>
> However, even under this proposal, Ada.Strings.Bounded and
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded are still non-remote. I find this an
> intolerable restriction, too, and I wonder if anyone sets out to
> remedy this...
Use CORBA? The Ada=>IDL mapping fully supports this sort of thing.
/Jon
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-19 0:00 What's Pure for Dist Sytems? Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Andre Spiegel
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Andre Spiegel
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Andre Spiegel
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