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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers
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"Georg Bauhaus" <bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote in message
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> By analogy, and consistent with the desired record interfaces,
> I will be asking for task type interfaces (no, not really).

Ada already has task interfaces, so you don't need to ask. ;-)

Which is why Dmitry's point is reasonable. There are things you can't do (or
can't do safely) with private types, and why not? Shouldn't it be possible
to create a complete abstraction that works like the built-in ones?

After all, it's not about the syntax:

   X := Y;

looks simple, but I've had to debug as much as 1K of machine code that
actually implements it. There can be a lot of complexity hidden behind the
two characters ":=". There is no reason to think that it would be a problem
if '.' or '(' or '"' had similar complexity. (Indeed, there are cases where
they do, you just can't write such cases yourself.)

                      Randy.