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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-27 11:03:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:03:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <4011127C.4030801@noplace.com> <_bdQb.24861$zj7.15527@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40165875.4020203@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1075230188 24443 134.91.1.34 (27 Jan 2004 19:03:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:03:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4919 Date: 2004-01-27T19:03:08+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: : : What about address clauses to achieve overlays? : What about rep clauses in general? Any of these things (and more!) could : be criticized as leading to "Bad Software Engineering" - but they serve : a useful purpose and the developer is advised to use them judiciously. (Interestingly, Controlled types disallow overlays ;-)