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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,78447032bdbeb343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Proposal: pragma Assumption Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <30917be5-1446-417c-8a4e-18b2f9a1f420@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <68a2d09d-c49c-4a61-9a2f-b6fd451913e4@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:39:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.65.144.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1211881160 12.65.144.232 (Tue, 27 May 2008 09:39:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:39:20 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:387 Date: 2008-05-27T09:39:20+00:00 List-Id: I did! You stated in that post: 'SYMPLIFYING_ASSUMPTION' is a macro very similar to the C 'assert', ... In conpilers a "MACRO" is consider to be a "conditional compiling" statement! This make what you were talking about, a matter for a "conditional compiling" decision. Which allows Ada to lose it concept of true portability. A bad idea for all. In <68a2d09d-c49c-4a61-9a2f-b6fd451913e4@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santiago_Urue=F1a?= writes: >> First, conditional compiling does not exist in the Ada Language and >> should never exist because of the purpose of Ada to be portable. >> >Thanks for your interest in the topic, but this proposal has nothing >to do with conditional compilation. Please, read again the original >post. Thanks > >Cheers, > >-- >Santiago Urue=F1a-Pascual >Technical University of Madrid (UPM) >