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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:24:37 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-16, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
> news:wccd2ec34um.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> ...
>> But I think what Simon wants is convenient syntax for dealing with
>> associative arrays, and that's reasonable.  But in a better language,
>> that wouldn't require associative arrays to be built in.
>
> Which Ada 2012 has. Specifically, referencing container elements works just 
> like an array, and iteration works just like an array. Simon said he didn't 
> want keys created implicitly, so the explicit calls to Insert aren't a 
> problem. So what's missing? (Slices don't make sense for Maps, since the 
> items are not ordered.)
>

I guess I'm adding Ada 2012 to the list of things to take a more
detailed look at. :-)

Thanks Randy,

Simon.

PS: What is the availability (and reliability) of the Ada 2012 features
in the FSF gcc branch these days ?

For example, when I look here:

	http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html

it's not at all clear how much of Ada 2012 is present in the FSF GCC
branch and the same is true for other searches I've just done.

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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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