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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Why doesn't Ada allow user-defined attributes?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:53:58 -0500
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I recall we considered this once, or maybe even twice. You can probably find 
some discussion in the development of Ada 2005 (that is, in the Ada 95 AIs) 
and the associated minutes. I don't really remember what the issues were and 
I have too much to do today to spend time looking it up for you. Good 
luck... - Randy

"Shark8" <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f8aceb25-018f-4248-bc1b-d3a145108e93@googlegroups.com...
While reading up on VHDL I found out about its user-defined attributes and 
got to wondering why Ada doesn't have them. I can see how restricting them 
to those defined in the standard can keep the code "clean" and certainly 
[mostly] uniform... though the allowance of implementation-defined 
attributes undermines the last portion of that argument. -- Does anyone 
know?