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 10.107.190.66 with SMTP id o63mr13940014iof.65.1520347017361; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:36:57 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.3.237 with SMTP id f100mr989582otf.6.1520347017173; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:36:57 -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!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!w142no1764045ita.0!news-out.google.com!a25ni5381itj.0!nntp.google.com!w142no1764044ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 06:36:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.240.217.2; posting-account=rhqvKAoAAABpikMmPHJSZh4400BboHwT NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.240.217.2 References: <83978b21-9384-4b04-a16d-37ce06488800@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "functional" programming in Ada From: Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:36:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 1539 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2804202185 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50843 Date: 2018-03-06T06:36:56-08:00 List-Id: > From a compiler writer POV I may understand it for the same reasons we > have the private part in the spec. How come ? Why should the compiler handle those functions differently than normal functions whose body is forbidden to be anywhere else than in the package body ?