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: 103376,6941f5cd4f1d4739 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!t2g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Matteo Bordin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPARK - an idea for high integrity data structures Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <9ac8feb3-5b79-41b1-a124-df211039c1bc@c10g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <4c45f3e7$0$2388$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <4c46f49d$0$2379$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.99.106.125 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1279793680 28699 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2010 10:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t2g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.99.106.125; posting-account=0fK-ZgoAAACswzEJSZ3LA9AZ4FnRU7mX User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12490 Date: 2010-07-22T03:14:40-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 21, 3:23=A0pm, "Peter C. Chapin" wrote: > On 2010-07-21 08:40, Phil Thornley wrote: > > > There are occasional hints about generics, and I guess that the > > pressure for these is increasing. OTOH I know that some work on this > > had already been done five years ago, so I'm not holding my breath. > > I attended a webinar on SPARK Pro 9.0 and a question about generics was > asked there. The answer was, "we are actively working on it, but I can't > give a specific release date or version." Of course it isn't completely > clear just what "actively working on it" means. Still, it sounds > encouraging. > > Perhaps the work on the Hi-Lite project is helping to drive generics > support in SPARK. That's just wild speculation. Hi-Lite has an open technical mailing list, so feel free to subscribe. BTW, the Hi-Lite repository is open and accessible on the Open-DO Forge. Matteo