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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada and OpenMP
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Date: 2013-03-08T07:37:19+00:00
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Pragmas, IMHO, are the worst way to do anything. Compiler writers tend
> to use them because they can do so without appearing to modify the
> language, but it's all an illusion: the program probably won't work
> right without the pragma, so you're still locked into that particular
> vendor.

You'd be just as locked with implementation-defined aspects (GNAT
certainly has these).

But at least another compiler would have to fail if it didn't support
the aspect at all (you'd be as badly off as with pragmas if it did, but
with different semantics).