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: 103376,8c3785c280bb1e80 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!prodigy.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!c03.atl99!news.usenetserver.com!news02.tsnz.net!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!ken-spool.news.telstra.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New reserved words? References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:34:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.29.51 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1088026462 138.217.29.51 (Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:34:22 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:34:22 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1829 Date: 2004-06-23T21:34:22+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > At this point (after the Palma de Mallorca meeting), there is likely to be > three added keywords: > > interface (AI-251) > overriding (AI-218-3) > synchronized (AI-345) > > Whether these will be new reserved words, or whether we'll define > "unreserved keywords" is still undecided. > > [Note that the last one was added very recently; it is a modifier for > interfaces, and it declares that an interfaces can only be implemented by a > task or protected type. There are also 'task' and 'protected' interfaces, > with the obvious semantics. We also approved making 'limited' interfaces > universal, in that they can be implemented by tagged, limited tagged, task, > and protected types -- pretty much everything that makes sense.] Ada is a fairly large language already - as a trainer I'ld prefer to have them as reserved words rather than creating a new category that has to be explained. Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au