Re: Clause "with and use"

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

Gautier Write-only wrote:
>Peter Hermann's post about number_base reminds me on a suggestion of mine
>about a "with and use" clause in AC ! Comments are welcome...

Well, I have a comment - not for the suggestion, but for the association -:)

Why not introduce CLAI (Comp.Lang.Ada-Issue), a kind of user-level AI ?

Both mentioned proposals may well be included there, along with several others.

A proposal will naturally belong to CLAI set if it makes some sense for users,
generally doesn't contradict Ada language, but have little chance to be accepted
by ARG due to low value/effort criteria for that proposal.

A formal criteria for inclusion into CLAI set may be explicit statement in
comp.lang.ada from at least 1 ARG member that he (I still never seen "she"
there -:) thinks that the proposal satisfies the above informal criteria.

I venture to think that AdaWorld website (for example) may host a page (or
pages) carrying those CLAI.

This my suggestion isn't aimed against recurring discussions in comp.lang.ada
about those issues. I just came to think that it might be sometimes useful
to have a humble repository for such proposals, at least for two purposes:
first, having a place to which a reference can be made, and second, having
an opportunity to review the whole list of them. (Letting imagination go wild,
one may expect that arguments pro and contra a CLAI may be collected and listed
also, thus providing some picture and even, in lucky circumctances, paving
the CLAI a way to become a true AI.)




Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia