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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d69f4a8070dd707 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-11 18:10:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AIs for Ada extensions Date: 11 Jun 2003 18:10:54 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3EDC8FA6.2000308@noplace.com> <3EDFAC9F.5040802@cogeco.ca> <3EE5C45B.700@noplace.com> <3EE6CCA2.9010109@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.242.18.67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055380254 18701 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2003 01:10:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2003 01:10:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39018 Date: 2003-06-12T01:10:54+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: >The right thing to do here is to get busy and catch up on the proposed >new packages in Ada0Y. >... >Proposed new packages: >... >AI-302 Data structure components for Ada >... >Language Extenstions for Ada0Y other than packages: >... >AI-251 Abstract Interfaces to provide Multiple Inheritance >... It seems to be an unfortunate collision that multiple new packages should be proposed when Abstract Interfaces still aren't established firmly. It is highly likely that some packages (for example, Data structures components) may look significantly better if they can use Abstract Interfaces. But one can't expect "widely used" prototype interface-based packages for standartization until Abstract Interfaces went into practice in Ada. So, perhaps, standartization of packages that can significantly benefit from Abstract Interfaces should be delayed, and follow the Core standard after year or two. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia