Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)

[Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>]

On 27-Mar-14 15:32, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
>> On 14-03-27 21:38 , Lucretia wrote:
>>> I've already mentioned doing this on #Ada, a fork of Ada.
>>> Take the basic language, strip it down to the basics
>>
>> So, what are the "basics"?
>
> The basics are the main language.
>
>> version of Ada-Ed, but with acceptable performance for programs that are
>> not humongously large. At the same time, such work, at least if done in
>> an academic setting, could help to clarify the dark corners of the
>> language standard.
>
> Can be done with llvm as a start with the hit interface.
>
>>> 3) Replace tagged with just class, so:
>>>
>>> type C is
>>>     class
>>>        ...
>>>     end class;
>>
>> A mere sop to foreign conventions and creates useless non-uniformity
>> between different kinds of records. I'm against it.
>
> Sop??
>
> The class is a different concept to a record and should be implemented that
> way, this will also make it more familiar to others, I.e. Help foster
> adoption.

I'd rather CLASS be used as, say, a shorthand for [essentially] 
signature-package use-cases (i.e. ensuring some type has some interface 
-- perhaps allowing a separately defined implementation).