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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.68.195.166 with SMTP id if6mr4525082pbc.6.1433197244983; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.44.163 with SMTP id f3mr146321obm.7.1433197244916; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h15no1795520igd.0!news-out.google.com!kd3ni34266igb.0!nntp.google.com!h15no1795517igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 15:20:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.0.105.201; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.0.105.201 References: <127b004d-2163-477b-9209-49d30d2da5e1@googlegroups.com> <59a4ee45-23fb-4b0e-905c-cc16ce46b5f6@googlegroups.com> <46b2dce1-2a1c-455d-b041-3a9d217e2c3f@googlegroups.com> <87a8wnu3v0.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <288e200f-8379-45b3-8eb7-342564c920ef@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:20:44 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26127 Date: 2015-06-01T15:20:44-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 3:36:15 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Shark8" wrote in message > news:288e200f-8379-45b3-8eb7-342564c920ef... > On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 3:31:33 AM UTC-6, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > ... > > Also, a way to refer to indices when in an array-aggrigare would be nice; > > Ex: I:Array(1..4,1..4) of Integer := (others => (if I'Index(1) = > > I'Index(2) then 1 else 0)); > > See AI12-0061-1. It was considered too big a change to put into the > Corrigendum, else you'd already have it. The original proposal was part of > Ada 9x, but it was one of many "nice-to-haves" that got dropped in the > "scope reduction". And we didn't think of it again until it came here in > 2013 (causing Adam to formally propose it on Ada-Comment). > > Randy. Nice! I did not know about that one.