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-Thread: 103376,64f0fb07a88662b1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsr1.ipcore.viaginterkom.de!news-peer1!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Contract checking in Ada Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <31T2e.5362$AI.4802@reader1.news.jippii.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-154-188-69.range81-154.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: titan.btinternet.com 1112290689 525 81.154.188.69 (31 Mar 2005 17:38:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:38:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <31T2e.5362$AI.4802@reader1.news.jippii.net> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10191 Date: 2005-03-31T17:38:09+00:00 List-Id: Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: > Ada.Containers (AI-302) has also status of No action, does it mean that > they were also abandoned? Look again: http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/AIs/AI-20302.TXT It's status is "Amendment 200Y". There are actually a number of entries in the AI database for the Containers - some are just to hold the huge volume of traffic the proposal has generated. > But back to my original question, how could I implement programming by > contract now when the designers have abandoned it in their great wisdom? > SPARKADA seems not to be free software, so it is not an option for me. In short, you can't but at least "pragma Assert" is being standardized. Cheers -- Martin p.s. Just "SPARK" never "SPARKADA" :-)