Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel

["Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com>]

"Brian Rogoff" <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSF.4.10.10111220030230.12326-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net...
> One of the interesting aspects of Cyclone which we
> may see in Ada 200X (well Tucker Taft said we may anyways) is region based
> memory management. Then I'll post a "Ada 0X : reinventing the wheel"
message :-)

Another area where I'd like to see Ada 0X "reinvent the wheel" is in the
area of generics.

In the Ada world we do tend to view C++ templates as just an inferior
knockoff of Ada generics.  But they do have some good things going for them.
I don't think that Ada generics should be like C++ templates in general, but
I do think that Ada or an Ada-like language should have something like
template specialization / partial specialization in C++.

-- Mark