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,cae92f92d6a1d4b1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feedme.ziplink.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Execution_Time Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:42:01 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <4d05e737$0$6980$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="z/xN1DBP8RUb+r9ug/i0hg"; logging-data="25416"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/R2xXGZ+EdJrKY+yENfGPN" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:z0n7AXCU61SQXGcvTooZA7QpyFQ= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16887 Date: 2010-12-13T23:42:01+01:00 List-Id: Le 13/12/2010 23:25, Randy Brukardt a �crit : >> The little learning it took, the few words of explanation, >> explicitness of intent dropped in favor of a special case in Ada >> 2012 which lets one use a pragma in place of a null statement. > > Yes. This is primarily an issue for a pragma Assert. > [...] > (Note that this was not a change I cared about much in either direction. The > use of pragmas for executable things is bad language design IMHO, and in any And to think that "assert" was a statement in (preliminary) Ada 1980... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00