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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b307bd75c8071241 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: newbie Q: storage management Date: 1997/05/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240537616 References: <5k5hif$7r5@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <336A065B.41C6@magellan.bgm.link.com> <336E15A4.167E@magellan.bgm.link.com> <5knhge$mul@top.mitre.org> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Eachus said << The one legacy I know of in Ada 95 from the ALIWG is the mechanism for associating data with exception instances. I think some other ideas the originally surfaced in the ALIWG also made it in, but via CIFO and the real-time working group so those ideas had, at the least, mixed parentage.>> Hmmm! This idea is very old, and has been discussed for a long time, and indeed, the original design for Ada 9X was much more elaborate, and more clearly inspired by the C++ design for exceptions than from anything from the ALIWG. In addition, the issue was mentioned in at least one of the formal revision requests. I guess Tuck will have to comment on whether Robert Eachus' statement above is correct. I doubt any ideas "originally surfaced" anywhere that anyone can remember. Almost any idea in PL at this stage has ancestral roots that can be traced back. There are verey few features in Ada 95 that cannot trace back their ancestry to pretty ancient languages and ideas :-)