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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Functions vs constants
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:43:23 -0500
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<Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de> wrote in message 
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Randy Brukardt wrote:

...
>> SPARK avoids overloading because the original authors of the tools didn't
>> have enough knowledge of how to implement it.
>
>Claiming them not to "have enough knowledge" is unfair!

I didn't mean it quite the way it sounds, I should have tried harder to find 
exactly the right words. It simply was too hard for a tool that primarily 
does text-level analysis. Indeed, I can't imagine that they could have 
reasonably implemented Ada visibility rules (short of basing their tools on 
ASIS or some specific Ada compiler) -- it's just too hard of a project. I'm 
sure doing that wasn't a priority for them, the priority would have been the 
proof facilities.

                                 Randy.