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From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
Subject: Re: Should representation clauses be complete for each bit?
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:37:31 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-07-21T00:37:31-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3cb81ff-3e7f-4ff2-aa83-fa7de9814eab@dp9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccsjq0vp2h.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com

On Jul 20, 6:28 pm, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com>
wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de> writes:
> > On 20.07.11 16:51, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
> >> By the way, I find Ada's representation clauses to be at the wrong
> >> level of abstraction.  Why can't I just write a single line of code
> >> that means "put all the components in declaration order with no gaps
> >> in between"?
>
> > Is this a frequent use case?
>
> Yes, I think so.
>
> - Bob

I think you're right, Bob. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's very,
very common.
-- Martin



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-20 10:34 Should representation clauses be complete for each bit? okellogg
2011-07-20 14:51 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-20 15:24   ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-07-20 17:28     ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-21  7:37       ` Martin [this message]
2011-07-21  8:22         ` Simon Wright
2011-07-21 14:58           ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-23  0:13             ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-27 14:12               ` okellogg
2011-07-28  0:03                 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-21  9:43         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-07-21 15:06           ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-31 15:02             ` BrianG
2011-07-21 21:11           ` Brian Drummond
2011-07-21  7:59     ` Stephen Leake
2011-07-20 15:29   ` okellogg
2011-07-20 16:24     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-07-20 16:58       ` okellogg
2011-07-20 19:38         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-07-20 17:27     ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-20 19:14       ` okellogg
2011-07-20 20:13         ` J-P. Rosen
2011-07-20 21:23           ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-20 21:21         ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-21  8:02         ` Stephen Leake
2011-07-21  8:00     ` Stephen Leake
2011-07-21  7:36   ` Martin
2011-07-22 23:50   ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-23  2:16     ` tmoran
2011-07-23 15:12     ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-26 21:10       ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-23  0:01   ` Randy Brukardt
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1998-04-17  0:00 Should Representation Clauses " Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
     [not found] <3533C3C5.3F25CB91@cacd.rockwell.com>
1998-04-16  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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