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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,571930b4ff0bc1ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-29 06:40:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: <3AC03CCE.70E3C2D5@mida.se> <87ae67qdrv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87lmprow3a.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <874rweoo2p.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3AC2EE4D.56D61A58@mida.se> Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:37:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 985876650 209.208.22.130 (Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:37:30 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:37:30 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6207 Date: 2001-03-29T14:37:30+00:00 List-Id: In article <3AC2EE4D.56D61A58@mida.se>, Mats Karlssohn says... > >function (better probably to limit its ability to loop though). Of the 3 approaches I mentioned, I think this one (allowing it, but limiting it so that infinte loops cannot be written) would probably be the most promising. It would be a fair bit of work though. It'd be interesting to see some graduate student do a thesis or disseration on this subject. It should be fairly possible to build someting of this sort off of Gnat. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com