Re: Extending a third party tagged type while adding finalization

[Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 1:15:53 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-11-26 18:33, Jere wrote:
> 
> > Based on what I have read so far, I didn't see any discussion that would
> > lead me to think this will be changed at least in the near future.
> 
> It was discussed on many occasions here in c.l.a.
> 
> The bottom line is - Ada does not have proper user-defined 
> constructors/destructors and will have none in any observable future.

Yep, that was what I was referring to. I've seen many of those (and 
I think I even participated in one).  My impression was that it
wasn't something on the immediate radar.  I started looking harder
into it recently because I was given someone's library to integrate
into something else I had.  It's not the end of the world, but it
is something I wish I knew more about so that I could put forth
a better argument for.

My view is definitely narrow, so I am sure I don't see enough of the
whole picture.  It might just be too difficult in practice.