Re: Will the defect with formal package parameters be fixed in GNAT GPL 2009?

[Eric Hughes <eric.eh9@gmail.com>]

On Apr 27, 1:20 pm, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> Newsflash: it's _your_ problem, _you_ post the bug report! (and if you
> didn't, why are you surprised that it's not fixed?)

It's not my problem at all; I just won't be using Ada if it doesn't
work. C++ templates are perfectly adequate to satisfy what I need in
generic programming. I don't suppose that the Ada-only people here pay
much attention to C++, but there's some quite good work being done
there with generics, both in practice and in proposals for the next
language version. So there's exciting progress in C++ with generics,
and the only practical compiler for GPL code can't do a nested
instantiation. I really do fail to see how this is my personal
problem.

This is the Ada community's problem--not only the actual defect but
also the practical difficulty of even filing a report on it. It's a
problem because when you make things unnecessarily difficult, people
will go elsewhere. In the present case, my own position is quite clear
to me--I won't support a platform (= language + distributions +
organizations) by writing libraries for it when that platform throws
up barriers to entry and barriers to quality.