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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.30.16 with SMTP id e16mr13943775ioe.22.1519837061591; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:57:41 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.46.5 with SMTP id q5mr855903otb.10.1519837061267; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:57:41 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!e10no189604itf.0!news-out.google.com!a25ni1378itj.0!nntp.google.com!w142no759050ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:57:41 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.240.208.48; posting-account=rhqvKAoAAABpikMmPHJSZh4400BboHwT NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.240.208.48 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: attributes on expressions, not name From: Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:57:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 1321 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2188543064 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50713 Date: 2018-02-28T08:57:41-08:00 List-Id: why aren't attributes allowed on expressions ? Like LINE'Length, assuming LINE is a function returning STRING. That limitation is PAINFUL. The type of an expression is always static, even when it is a class-wide type, an attribute defined for the type of that expression, will never fail. At least I can't see any case. Please tell me if I'm wrong.