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-Thread: 103376,227757d168eaa8a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A question re meaning/use of the "for ... use ..." References: <41b3291e$0$44072$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 01:41:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.189.8.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1102470093 63.189.8.82 (Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:41:33 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:41:33 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6826 Date: 2004-12-08T01:41:33+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > That was proposed early in the Ada 9x process (that is, "when expr" on > returns, raise, etc.). It eventually got dropped as not important enough > when the scope of Ada 9x was reduced. As one of those who submitted such a proposal, I'm well aware of this. > Generally, we haven't looked at "nice to haves" or things that got dropped > from Ada 9x (conditional expressions is another thing that comes to mind). > There wasn't exactly a groundswell of comments in those areas, either. I don't consider conditional expressions as promoting the consistency of the language. -- Jeff Carter "Brave Sir Robin ran away." Monty Python and the Holy Grail 59