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: a07f3367d7,da85d9aaf769b16a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!weretis.net!feeder2.news.weretis.net!news.tornevall.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the rational ? Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:41:33 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: a7cf9c3efa6a83bc1e5f74bd9ba2b62b Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 33fd9192a74340e70678d7a3bbf7bf06 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=33fd9192a74340e70678d7a3bbf7bf06 X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Parlo la lingua non � italiano User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) X-Posting-User: 9b22bfe2855937f9b3faeec7cfc91295 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8820 Date: 2009-10-27T16:41:33-07:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > But I don't see why it complicates the language. Seems like a wash in > Ada 83. And in Ada 95/2005, I think the existing rule is slightly more > complicated (because it special-cases generic formal packages). Well, sure, but they added lots of stuff that makes the language more complicated that I don't even think should be in there. -- Jeff Carter "We'll make Rock Ridge think it's a chicken that got caught in a tractor's nuts!" Blazing Saddles 87