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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 13:04:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:06:43 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.107.63.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1054152263 81.107.63.23 (Wed, 28 May 2003 21:04:23 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:04:23 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37941 Date: 2003-05-28T21:06:43+02:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > As much as I like XML, the complete linkage to XML should NOT be included in > Ada 200X. A top level generic could be included in Interfaces. The reason > for this is the instantiation of a generic can have child libraries. This > would permit revision of the detailed parts of the interface durring the > inevitable evolution of XML. Good point. I hadn't thought about XML and its supporting technologies evolution.