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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Dynamic type system for Ada
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:37:43 +0100
Date: 2017-01-28T10:37:43+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <o6hom2$dmi$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74sn8cdapfokik36fki449cdjb34l169lh@4ax.com>

On 01/28/2017 02:16 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:20:33 +0200, Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
> declaimed the following:
>>
>> In my initial request there was no proposal to encode arbitrary Ada object.
>>
> 	Your subject line is "dynamic type system...", so naturally we would
> consider anything in Ada that can be defined via "... type ..."

On Jan 24 he wrote

>> All I ask is just an Ada type which would be so flexible that could store
>> any kind of a value (just like as a variable in a dynamic language).

"Any kind of value" must mean "values of any type".

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in
space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth."
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 13:12 Dynamic type system for Ada Victor Porton
2017-01-24 13:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-24 13:58   ` Victor Porton
2017-01-24 14:26     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-24 18:07     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-01-24 21:21     ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-24 22:01       ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-25  8:23       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-25 21:55         ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-25  8:38       ` Georg Bauhaus
2017-01-25  5:41 ` Paul Rubin
2017-01-27 19:20   ` Victor Porton
2017-01-28  1:16     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-01-28  9:37       ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2017-01-26 17:53 ` Vincent
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