Re: Gnat 2013 is out!

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

"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
news:33025e6c-b893-4c66-98f6-0fb469016583@googlegroups.com...
> On Saturday, June 1, 2013 4:51:01 AM UTC-7, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> On 01.06.13 00:07, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> > Unless the syntax makes it pretty obvious that this is a dummy, 
>> > discarded
>> > parameter, this idea is going nowhere. (And it might very well go 
>> > nowhere
>> > even if the syntax is perfect.)
>>
>> Can you perhaps employ the new subpools mechanism? To provide
>> constraints for an anonymous, "boxed object", we'd write
>>
>>     My_Proc (Obj1, Obj2, Result => <> String'(1..80 => <>));
>>
>> Then, if __ stands for a subpool known only to the compiler
>> such as, ahem, the stack, the expansion is the impossible
>>
>>     My_Proc (Obj1, Obj2, Result => (new(__) String'(1..80 => <>)).all);
>
> I'm beginning to regret opening this subject up.

I feel your pain, after I encouraged it. What part of "really simple" don't 
people understand?

                                    Randy.