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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9bab26b6fe54a36 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!d28g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Anh Vo Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Pondering what rationale behind record type Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <90148303-4dc4-4c05-882f-88dd69a95494@z13g2000prk.googlegroups.com> <92quueFnsfU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 149.32.224.33 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1304971959 29006 127.0.0.1 (9 May 2011 20:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 20:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d28g2000yqf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=149.32.224.33; posting-account=Qh2kiQoAAADpCLlhT_KTYoGO8dU3n4I6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19200 Date: 2011-05-09T13:12:39-07:00 List-Id: On May 9, 1:02=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2011 22:51:42 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote: > > Adam Beneschan wrote: > >> Heh ... good question. =A0I have to say I get tripped up by this a lot= ; > >> I type things like "type Some_Type is record ... end Some_Type;" > >> fairly frequently, and sometimes I don't catch it before the compiler > >> does. > > > I make that mistake often, too. I would vote for a change in the > > language to allow "end Some_Type" as an alternative to "end record". > > Count me in. I am in automatically. I am hoping that it is still time to put it in Ada 2012. Of course, we need to hear from Randy, Tucker and others first. Anh Vo