Re: Clause "with and use"

["Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net>]

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"Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru> wrote in message
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> 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

I like the idea, and I'm more than willing to make it happen too :-).
Here's a few questions that you and other interested parties might want to
answer.

How to do picture this CLAI?

How would you (and the others too) like to see this created?

How would you like to create/edit issues?

Would there be official categories to consider, like syntax issues,
libraries issues, etc etc...to help search and post issues in the right
places?  if so perhaps a list of them, to start with might be a good idea.


I'll start with these questions and see where it takes us :-).

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