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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: ANN: Kickstarter for beginning work on a new open-source Compiler
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:04:29 -0500
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"Shark8" <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 19-Mar-14 15:03, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> For one thing, if you're at all  successful, you'll be stuck there for 
>> the
>> rest of your working life. And to get far enough to be at all successful,
>> you'll have to figure out how to deal with lovely things like resolution,
>> visibility, and tyranny of interfaces.
>
> Visibility is an important thing, as is resolution -- though maybe they 
> are more on the complex side of things than we'd like.
>
> With the "tyranny of interfaces" do you mean in-general like like a 
> generic's formal parameters and a subprogram's signature? Or do you mean 
> the construct of the 'interface' keyword?

The interface construct itself. The issues with actually implementing 
multi-dispatching are quite daunting, especially given the other 
requirements of Ada. It clearly can be done; whether I could actually do it 
is a much more interesting question (particularly without abandoning other 
properties of our implementation).

                          Randy.