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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for Ada 200x - Interface inheritance
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:02:39 +0200
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Bill Findlay wrote:

>On 3/6/03 18:46, in article bbin04$9onrq$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de,
>"Vinzent Hoefler" <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote:
>
>> Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
>>=20
>>> | -----Message d'origine-----
>>> | De: Bill Findlay [mailto:yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk]
>>> ...
>>> | >=20
>>> | > Example:
>>> | > Create (File <=3D> My_File,
>>> | >       Mode    =3D> In_File,
>>> | >       Name    =3D> "My_File",
>>> | >       Status <=3D  Status);
>>> | > Pretty clear, isn't it? :-) And could also apply to declaration!
>>> |=20
>>> | I hope Status is not of Boolean type! 8-)
>>>=20
>>> No, it isn't. I had called it Is_Created.
>>=20
>> Well, "<=3D" is a comparison that would create a result of type =
Boolean.
>> Fortunately you just can't compare Booleans that way. ;-)
>
>Sorry? Am I missing a joke?

Maybe?

What would you expect from a call like this:

|procedure Create_Conditional (Do_It : Boolean);
| ...
|Create_Conditional (3 <=3D 5);

If I didn't miss anything, this should be legal Ada.


Vinzent.