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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada202X : Adding functors
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On 11/12/2012 03:09 PM, Martin wrote:
>
> I guess one of the trickier bits of adding this would be the possible need to
> step away from the current Ada convention of not requiring empty
> parenthesis...but new language revisions always change the 'current' good
> style...

Ada 80 required empty parentheses for subprogram calls with no explicit actual 
parameters. There were many objections to this, even though they disambiguated 
some calls that are ambiguous without them, and they were removed in Ada 83. I, 
for one, would not want to see them return.

I have to admit I do not see the advantage of this over existing subprograms.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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