From: aio!dnsurber@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Douglas N. Surber)
Subject: Re: User-defined assignment
Date: 19 Oct 92 14:13:20 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dnsurber.719504000@node_26400> (raw)
In <1992Oct17.175730.17448@software.org> smithd@software.org (Doug Smith) write
s:
>In article <1992Oct16.231346.11881@inmet.camb.inmet.com> you write:
>Really, if this is the worst, I can live with it! This is
>not worth crippling the language over. In fact, this sounds
>like the baby (user-defined assignment) is being thrown out
>with the bath-water (the few problems introduced).
>These arguments appear valid, but they don't apply to any
>of the situations that I have uncovered in practice. Please
>don't cripple Ada9X because of these difficulties.
>I am currently working on the Ada Quality & Style guide. It
>is very common for these guidelines to explain how certain
>features should best be used. It also explains where certain
>dangerous programming practices should be avoided. If there
>is an Ada9X Quality & Style guide, these concerns you point
>out would be ideal warnings to the practicing programmer.
>Unfortunately, if user-defined assignment is not available,
>the guidelines explaining how to do memory management and
>garbage collection will be pretty sparce (as in Ada). There
>is no need to explain the correct way to use a feature that
>doesn't exist.
>Doug Smith
>smithd@software.org
Hear! Hear!
Douglas Surber
Lockheed
Houston, TX
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