From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-16 05:09:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:06:45 +0200 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1063714114 88216 137.194.161.2 (16 Sep 2003 12:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:08:34 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42570 Date: 2003-09-16T14:06:45+02:00 | -----Message d'origine----- | De: Matthew Heaney [mailto:matthewjheaney@earthlink.net] ... | > | I happen to think that access disciminants are quite elegant. | > | They are | > | quite general and powerful. Hardly "gimmicky" at all. | > I also don't feel confortable with this idiom, probably due to some | > primitive instinct that order me to run away from the | "access" keyword :-) | > But, conversely, that's not important. | | Access discriminants are the sine qua non of Ada95 programming. If | you're not using access discriminants, then you're not utilizing the | full power of Ada95. Probably, and it's not not just related to access discriminant. But to stick back to our point, i don't choose to use or not to use multiple views because there is or isn't access discriminant involved, see my other mail. -- Lionel Draghi