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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Ada 2012: In-out parameters for functions
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 12:32:03 +0100
Date: 2013-05-03T12:32:03+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lya9ocqoy4.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UYadnS4eOq5gCB7MnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@supernews.com

anon <anon@anon.org> writes:

> Another change is the "Copy by Reference" has been replaced by "Copy
> by Type".  This change alone defeats the purpose of the "limited
> private" used in Generics compilation units aka external re-usable
> libraries which forces existing libraries to be re-written. So, many
> companies that used Generic libraries are now leaving Ada for a
> language that does not alter a major language feature after 25 plus
> years of the language existence.

I don't think I've ever used a limited private formal type, and I don't
recognise 'has to be rewritten'.

So, which generic libraries are you thinking of? And which companies are
these?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-03 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-01 16:28 Ada 2012: In-out parameters for functions dptrash
2013-05-01 17:27 ` Shark8
2013-05-01 19:04 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-01 19:37   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-05-01 19:58     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-02  6:41       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-05-02  7:11         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-01 23:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-05-03 10:48 ` anon
2013-05-03 11:04   ` Simon Clubley
2013-05-03 11:32   ` Simon Wright [this message]
2013-05-03 11:42   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-03 11:54     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-03 23:29       ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-04  1:02         ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-05  5:16           ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-05 10:24         ` Niklas Holsti
2013-05-05 11:11           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-05 12:52             ` Bill Findlay
2013-05-05 15:09               ` Niklas Holsti
2013-05-05 19:23                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-05 20:37                   ` Niklas Holsti
2013-05-07  0:30                 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-07  2:36                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-05 19:45               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-06 15:40               ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-06 16:17                 ` Bill Findlay
2013-05-06 16:47                   ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-06 18:43                     ` Bill Findlay
2013-05-07  0:07                     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-05-07  2:34                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-07  0:26             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-06 15:26           ` Adam Beneschan
2013-05-07  0:36             ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-07  3:59           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-07  4:13             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-07 11:52             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-03 11:45   ` AdaMagica
2013-05-03 23:54     ` Randy Brukardt
2013-05-04  6:58       ` J-P. Rosen
2013-05-04  7:21         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-05-04 17:58           ` J-P. Rosen
2013-05-04  7:40         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-05-04  8:05           ` Simon Wright
2013-05-04 17:55           ` J-P. Rosen
2013-05-04  0:40   ` Keith Thompson
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