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From: "Michael B." <michaelb@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Tagged type abuse
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:39:41 +0100
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Sounds like a reasonable change. Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,

Michael


On 12/20/14 01:07, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> In Ada 83-2005, untagged record types compose using a reimergence of
> predefined "=" (the user-defined "=" is ignored in that case). That was not
> changed in Ada 95 because of compatibility concerns. But the problem wasn't
> going away, and having an aspect to do the right thing made no sense and
> having an aspect to do the wrong thing helps no-one (the code would have to
> be modified, but if you can do that, you might as well fix it). So we just
> changed it. We think that 99% of the time, people would rather have the
> user-defined "=" used (why else would you have defined it?)