Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
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>I don't think conditional expressions are officially part of Ada yet.
>The changes haven't been approved.  So if some compiler accepts them,
>it's a compiler for some other language that isn't Ada.

The ARG approved AI-147 on Sunday, June 20th by a 9-0-0 vote.

Note that we had decided long ago to add conditional expressions; we have 
been hung up on the detailed wording of the resolution rules for them, and 
whether various obscure cases needed to work properly. For instance:

In a function returning T'Class:
    return (if C then A else B); -- A and B have different types, both 
covered by T'Class.

A conversion:
    T'Class (if C then A else B); -- A and B as above.

The goal was to make them as natural as possible, so ultimately, both of the 
above were determined to be acceptable.

                                        Randy.