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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:39:48 +0100
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Robert Love <rblove@airmail.net> writes:

> On 2014-03-25 21:41:16 +0000, Stoik said:
>
>> I think that even a casual user of Ada should be able to influence
>> somehow the new version of Ada. I wonder what is high on your list
>> of wishes for Ada 202X?
>> I suspect many of the proposals could be tested in GNAT before being
>> introduced (or rejected) in the new version. One could add a switch
>> to GNAT indicating that we want to use some of the experimental
>> features.
>
> How about that it comes to be in my lifetime.  Make that my working
> lifetime.

There is such a switch : -gnatX, "language extensions permitted". I
don't think that there are any such extensions to actually _be_
permitted at the moment, there certainly have been in the past.