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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c469fdacc2f3302b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Warren Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dynamic Variant Record Creation Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.motzarella.org; posting-host="9f8M0iN5t54V+4DF/iqO8g"; logging-data="10221"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/26sJcO3vPv+/ycW2RSsz48yx3Wd/uwO8=" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Face: &6@]C2>ZS=NM|HE-^zWuryN#Z/2_.s9E|G&~DRi|sav9{E}XQJb*\_>=a5"q]\%A;5}LKP][1mA{gZ,Q!j Cancel-Lock: sha1:vhACJvr9iHplghBV4/9vN36EkCg= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:10619 Date: 2010-03-18T13:00:59+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt expounded in news:hnrr6j$d7n$1@munin.nbi.dk: .. > If the idea offered much additional expressiveness, I wouldn't object, > but it doesn't seem to have enough. > > Steve Baird and I had worked out a partially constrained discriminant > constraint which would have provided a much better solution to this > problem along with many others -- but Tucker Taft couldn't seem to > wrap his mind around the idea (it seemed natural to me) and thus it > got quickly killed. Thus I don't think there will be any relief. > > Randy. As it turned out (in my case at least), the problem was more of a design problem (see upstream post). Once I reworked the design, the problem vanished. ;-) Warren