Ada 0Y plans for garbage collection?

[Jano <nono@celes.unizar.es>]

Hello,

I'm very happy using Ada but when one needs to use heap-allocated 
objects and unchecked deallocation it becomes tiresome rapidly, and that 
leaving aside memory leaks.

After some time using Java/.NET or other managed languages this becomes 
rapidly a great pain if you are in the less real time constrained 
environments. I was wondering if there are plans to add a standard 
garbage collection mechanism to the next revision of Ada. Seeing where 
are going things this seems almost a necessity if Ada has to keep 
current with times.

I've seen past discussions about Ada and GC, but mostly focus on 
technical difficulties or social (fictitious?) "cultural" opposition to 
it being implemented, or lack of demand, or whatever, but nothing about 
definite plans for the next revision.

Can someone comment on this? Are there plans to mandate it in 0Y? As a 
side note, is out there any public implementation of GC for Ada 95?

TIA,

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Jano
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