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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms
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On 05/01/2013 06:18 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> So my point is the that the question is not whether general finalization
> would have been better than tagged-type only finalization. It was whether
> tagged-type only finalization was better than nothing, because there was no
> chance of the general finalization being in Ada 95. Finalization is far too
> important for us to have waited another 12 years to get it, so what we've
> got is the best that we could have gotten.

To my mind, since in Ada 83 records were the only types with user-defined 
default initialization, it made sense for them also to be the only types with 
user-defined finalization. So I think that limiting finalization to record types 
should have been a 3rd option.

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Jeff Carter
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