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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Is this expected behavior or not
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:57:48 +0200
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Date: 2013-04-17T11:57:48+02:00
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On 17 Apr 2013 09:23:26 GMT, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> How does a type cover essential behavioral
> aspects of time and space if representation
> may not be part of the type system?

Representation clauses for task types, memory layout of the TCB? (:-))

> If the Ada type system cannot express
> time and space, I'll still consider them
> functional requirements.

And this should justify conflation of a representation with the type
semantics... surely.

> And I'd much rather
> want the types to state them, rather than
> hands waving stories about implementations.

Excellent, A.4.5:

package Ada.Strings.Unbounded is
   type Unbounded_String is private;

This sort of thing of representation declaration?

It is always interesting to observe the ends people are ready to go
defending undefendable...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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