Re: Elaboration order handling (Was: Bug in 'gnatmake')

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/21/2013 01:43 PM, Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
> All you said was "I like the idea that something that's empty has to have
> something special in it to show that it's deliberately empty."  You didn't
> say that that applied only to things ending in a semicolon.  Don't blame me
> for "comparing apples to oranges" when all you said was "fruit".

True enough. It seemed obvious to me, but obviously wasn't.

> Well, it could have, prior to Ada 2005.  That's no longer possible, because
> of null procedures.

Ah, yes, another unnecessary shortcut.

> Then why do you want a separate declarative part at all?  Many popular
> languages these days don't separate the two, and let you put declarations
> anywhere you can put a code statement, or even in the middle of another
> statement.  So if you don't see a significant distinction, why not be
> consistent?

I addressed this in detail in a reply to Duff. Basically, I find it hard to find 
a specific declaration when reading such languages.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted,
people stampeded, and cattle raped."
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